MEMORIES FROM ATATURK

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This memoir must be read to understand what kind of a STATESMAN and what kind of a person Atatürk was. Here you will see his personality, his mood, his loyalty and love for his nation, his practical intelligence, and his way of thinking about business. You will see a LEADER who is concerned about the problems of his citizens, spends his life and time for their welfare and happiness, and cannot tolerate mistakes

On the 86th anniversary of his death; We commemorate Gazi Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK, the GREAT STATESMAN and the Founder of our Republic, who saved us from being slaves, who devoted his life to the welfare and happiness of the nation, and his comrades in arms, with mercy, respect and gratitude.(10.11.2024)

Compiled By:Muhterem ERENLİ

WELCOME HALİL AGHA!

I am quoting the partially summarized article of Mr. Ismet Bozdağ, who wrote this incident in the series of articles published in Günaydın newspaper under the title ATATÜRK's TABLE with the information he obtained from Nuri Conker, Behçet Kemal and Kılıç Ali Beys, verbatim:

The year is 1936, Istanbul is experiencing a golden autumn. Atatürk was talking to his friends and hanging out with Ülkü at the Florya Mansion. He had been busy with state affairs but he was still bored. He has never been able to get used to the limited life of the Presidency. As he said to his Private Secretary Hasan Rıza Soyak one day, he considered himself locked up and arrested. That is why Atatürk was bored throughout his presidency and complained about it to his relatives. While telling these feelings to his friend from the Salonika days, Nuri Conker, he suddenly hits Conker on the knee:

-Can you help me, Nuri?

-How?

-Let's escape from the mansion!

Conker pauses. Initiating such a thing means getting a severe scolding from Prime Minister Ismet Pasha. But the one who wants it is Ataturk:
-So how are we going to escape, Pasha? An army of men will follow us, there is no fun in that…
Ataturk laughs:
-Leave all this alone, I know what “let’s escape” means? It means to slip away quietly without being seen by anyone! Will you help me?
-Pasha, excuse me, I didn’t understand, but I am at your service of course. You tell me the way and I will join you…
- Hah, it’s done now.

While he is talking these things, Ataturk’s eyes shine like a child’s eyes and he continues talking:
-Look now Nuri… Don’t you have a friend with a car?
- You do…
-Okay. Now you will go and call this man secretly from the aides and ask for his car for yourself for a day… Leave the rest to me…
Conker calls his friend and reminds him to come with the car covered. When he comes to Atatürk, he listens to the application:
-Now look what we will do?. The car will come to pick you up. The aide will come and inform you. We will both walk towards the door. I will dismiss the aide with a command. I will put on your jacket and hat and get in the car. You will arrive in a few seconds!. It is not strange for you to walk around in your shirt this season. When you pass by the guards, you will show yourself and they will recognize you and let you go. Since they will not suspect you, we will break the circle!.
 

-Even if we break through the circle, they will notice it immediately and come after us, Pasha.
-What?... Do you say they will understand? I am surprised at the ruined mind... Where is all that intelligence in these men? If these men saw Atatürk escaping from the mansion with their own eyes, they would not even believe themselves! Just wait and see!...
Nuri Conker, anxious with fear of İsmet Pasha, Atatürk waits happily with the desire to be free. Finally, the aide-de-camp arrives and gives the news. Atatürk calls out:
-So you are invited, Nuri, all right... Let me take you to the door, then I will return and read a book...
They walk together.. The aide-de-camp was following them. Atatürk suddenly turned. Among my books, there will be a book called “Orients” by Edouart Herriot. It just arrived. Find it and put it on my table in my room. I will not eat tonight, I will read. You can rest too!
- Heads up Atatürk!,..

When the aide-de-camp walked away and disappeared

- Come on, take off your jacket, give me your hat!

Atatürk quickly put on his jacket and put the hat on his head and started walking. When he came to the car, he paused for a moment and opened the door, thinking that Atatürk was Nuri Conker. Just as he was about to get behind the wheel, Nuri Conker appeared and said:

- Come on son, pull over!..

When the car started moving and reached the outer door, the guard approached the car... Nuri Conker stuck his head out of his seat and called out to the guard.
- Goodbye soldier.

They received the answer "Thank you" and walked away.
Atatürk to the driver:
- Towards Çekmece., he said and turned to Nuri Conker smiling. Didn’t I tell you we would run away? Now think about their panic when we returned!...
Atatürk’s joy was beyond words. They also opened the car’s awning on the way. They were driving towards Çekmece on a beautiful late September evening, enjoying the autumn. The weather was warm, the view was beautiful and everything was going smoothly...

Suddenly Atatürk’s eyes caught a peasant plowing under the evening sun. He was an old man. But he was slowly turning over the soil that had stuck to the plow handle. But the plow had an ox on one side and a donkey on the other. Since they were not pulled with equal forces, the plow was wobbling. Atatürk to the driver:
- Stop, he said,
they got out of the car. The peasant plowing was not far from the road. Atatürk reached into his back pocket and took out his cigarette case, then called out to the peasant:
- Good luck, Agha!
The villager responded to this voice without turning his head:
 

- Thanks!, Thanks!
Ataturk called out from the beginning:
- Do you have a fire, a fire?

This time the villager turned his head towards the sound. Atatürk was showing the unlit cigarette in his hand. The villager looked for a while, then stopped the animals and started walking towards them. While walking, he was talking and taking out a wick lighter from his belt:
- I guess you are a smoker, Bey? A smoker should understand the state of a smoker...
- Well... we forgot the matches...
Ataturk held out a cigarette, and the villager struck the lighter and lit the wick. They lit the cigarettes from the wick that was giving off a sweet burnt smell. Atatürk:
- How are things, Agha? Did you enjoy the crop this year?
- The villager spoke reluctantly. May God not offend you, but Bey, the crop was soft this year. The blame is on us, and the blame is up there!
He raised his finger up and pointed to the sky, continuing:

We were late, and the upper world withheld mercy, that's how it is..
-I see, there is an ox on one side of the plough and a donkey on the other. Don't you have an ox?
-It was supposed to exist, the tax officers sold them in Hıdrellez...
-Does a tax officer ever sell a villager's means of production? Such a thing is unacceptable! You should have complained to the headman.
The villager smiled and said:
Was the headman in charge of the officer, Bey?
Atatürk spoke, chewing his lips:
-You should have gone to the district governor...
Are you also making love with me, Bey, not even a bird flies around here without the district governor knowing. Those old times are over, we have our little Atatürk right there!.
-Well, Istanbul is right there. You should have gone to the Governor, told him your troubles.. Isn't that what he does?..
The villager was laughing heartily, believing in Atatürk's naivety. He was a little amused because he was enjoying the conversation, and he cut him short:
-Leave that deaf man alone, we've seen him come and go from here a lot. If we grab him by the collar, would we be able to make our troubles heard?,.
Atatürk was well-dressed. He also enjoyed his speech very much. He asked:
-What's your name, Agha?
-Halil.... If you ask in the village, they'll say Halil Agha...
-So you're wealthy?. According to what they call Agha.
-Our poor couple, when we had a stick, our name went up to Agha, Halil Agha down, Halil Agha up; then our double-rod is gone, but shouldn't the Agha be left?.. Our young men still follow me around saying "Halil. Agha"!..
-Well Halil Agha, this job of yours has me quite curious. As far as I know, a farmer's means of production cannot be taken away from him. You say they took it.. Let's say the district governor is like this, the governor is like that; well, there is a Prime Minister!, do you know that there is İsmet Paşa?..
-How could I not know, sir...
-Okay then, he comes to Istanbul almost every week, he goes down to the Florya Mansion, the Mansion is right there. If you had waited at the door one day and told him your troubles... He would have found a solution, I guess.
-You liked my talk, you are having fun. But look, sinci, let's say I went and arrived, they wouldn't put me at that door... Let's say they would, they wouldn't show our great İsmet Paşa. Suppose they showed him how I would feel, especially that deaf man! He never hears, my dear! Nuri Conker wanted to intervene, Atatürk stopped him with a gesture. He had shown all the levels of complaint up until now and had received his response. He was the only one left. He lit another cigarette from his cigarette, gave one to the villager and asked:
- Well, let's see what you will find in what I said, You just said we have Atatürk.. He was sitting there in the middle of nowhere. If you had gone and brought him out, if you had explained his situation, he wouldn't have left you in the lurch either!..
The villager was thoroughly amused, laughing bitterly, looking at the ignorance of the person in front of him as if he pitied him. He answered the question:
-What are you saying, sir?.. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, it takes the power of a prophet to see the face of our Atatürk. We also said Temin, let's say we saw it, will he give up eating, drinking, his work, his strength and watch after our ox?. Keep your heart at ease, sir, our big boy will do our job and even go beyond.. Don't worry!.,
Halil Agha was getting ready to go to his farm while filling his lungs with the last breath of his cigarette. There was nothing left to talk about. Atatürk put his hand on the villager's shoulder and said
-I like you Halil Agha. I will come to your village one day and drink some of your ayran. You are an open-hearted citizen. But I am still telling you, do not leave your rights to anyone, call!..
- Don't worry sir, first of all, no one will touch our rights. It is a state debt, it will be paid. You were late for planting, the sky has withheld its mercy, will the state listen? Well done!,.
The car started moving. They drove for a while, then Atatürk called out to Nuri Conker:
- Let's return from a suitable place, this business has lost its flavor! he said.

They headed towards the mansion. Atatürk was silent, thinking, lighting cigarette after cigarette, there was a slight sadness on his face.
- Boy, we sold Halil Agha's ox because of his tax debt, he plows with a donkey, he still says "State Father". What a blessed nation this nation is!...
Atatürk had fallen silent. He was not even looking at the beautiful roads they were passing through, he was lost in thought with his blue eyes. They arrived at Florya Mansion shortly afterwards. When the guards saw Nuri Conker and Atatürk in an open sports car, they were almost surprised and forgot to salute. Especially the guard aide, when he learned the situation, had such a rush that he made Nuri Conker, not Atatürk, forget about the complaints he was going to hear from İsmet Pasha, and made him laugh.

Atatürk said to the aide:
-Now, you will find all the deputies in Istanbul by phone. I expect them to dinner tonight. Also, find the Governor Muhittin Üstündağ and Prime Minister İsmet Pasha and inform them too.

The aide left the room. Atatürk turned to Nuri Conker:
 

- Look here Nuri!. Now you will go out with the car we went out with and find that Halil Aga. Don't tell him who I am. You will say that the merchant is a rich man or something. He likes you, he will buy you an ox, say something like that, deceive him. Come here without making him suspicious. Don't make him suspicious, come here, do you understand, you will talk him out of it, you will show him your skills, but you will not upset him, you will not make him suspicious. Come on, let me see you!.

After sending Nuri Conker away, he took the cue, as he did in his thoughtful times, and started playing billiards.
Nuri Conker knew the difficulty of his task. Halil Aga was a clever villager, it was not possible to bring him to Ataturk's mansion without him noticing. He would try to do it...
Indeed, when he found Halil Aga on the village road with his donkey and ox in front of him, he realized that he was not mistaken. After a long and tiring effort, he had persuaded Halil Agha. When they set off, Nuri Conker took a deep breath. But now the real hard part would begin. Getting Halil Agha into the mansion without arousing suspicion was a problem. Halil Agha was right when he asked after a while:
-Where is the Bey's house?
-The Bey's house?.. He is currently in the summer house, in Suadiye, his nephew is also a guest tonight, we will go there too..
-What does his nephew do?..
-He is working as a reserve officer in the Atatürk mansion these days..
-Don't you dare, are we going to the mansion?..
-The mansion..
-Oh my lord, do you know what to do?. I cannot get into the mansion or anything. Let this cooking business be left, we will do it when the Bey returns home. Just write your address to me on a piece of paper, I will come!..
-Look, I didn't like what you said Halil Agha, no, then we'll make the Bey angry, that's really bad.
-Oh, Bey, stop the car, I'll go back to the village!...
Nuri Conker finally managed to bring Halil Agha to the aide-de-camp's room, but the milk he had sucked from his mother had also come out of his nose. Halil Agha was horrified as he entered the mansion and asked:
-Oh, Bey, oh, Bey, can't our Bey Pasha be a pawn?

That evening, there were around twenty-five people at Atatürk's table, including Prime Minister İsmet İnönü, Ministers, Members of Parliament, and Istanbul Governor Muhittin Üstündağ. Atatürk said at one point at the table:
- "Our Master will come to our table tonight", I want to see how you treat him!

A fiskos began at the table. Who was this "Our Master"? Who could Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish nation, refer to as "Our Master"? Had he prepared a joke, a surprise, or was someone he truly respected coming? At that very moment, the Chief Aide-de-camp entered and said something to Atatürk's ear... Atatürk with a pleased face:
- Yes, he said.

Now everyone was out of breath, all eyes were fixed on the door without batting an eyelash.

Halil Agha understood that he had gotten into trouble and was begging Nuri Conker to die for him.
- Oh sir, let me kiss your hands and feet sir, I don't want a cow or a cow, let me go!..
Conker, the aides were not clapping, they were standing respectfully in front of him, hand in hand, trying to calm him down. Then Halil Agha realized who he had been talking to during the day. It was Atatürk. Indeed, it was Atatürk himself! He had disguised himself and had attacked him, so to speak. What he had said must have suddenly come to his mind because he collapsed into unbearable begging:
- Your brain was Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha, indeed! Even our short-witted women knew by saying “Hızır”. Damn, like Halil, your past and future... I was clear, my gentlemen, my commanders, oh I was clear!.

The more they tried to calm him down, the more he got scared:
-What the hell did I do to our Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha Atatürk?.. You called his name Kemal, wake up, you guy who shouldn’t be Halil?.. What will he do to me now, our Mustafa Kemal Pasha Atatürk, what will he do? Oh, if he cuts my blind tongue and makes me walk around like an example: “This is what happens to a chattering fool.”

They brought him to the living room door with consoling words, Nuri Conker on one arm and the Chief Aide on the other. When the Chief Aide opened the door and Halil Agha saw that the gentleman he talked to during the day was sitting at the head of the table and İsmet Pasha was sitting next to him, his knees went weak. But the damage had already been done, he pulled himself together with all his strength and began to plan what to say.

When Halil Agha appeared at the door, Atatürk stood up, When he stood up, the whole table stood up in a loud voice, Atatürk:

- Welcome Halil Agha! After saying this, he turned to the people at the table and introduced them and said:
- Here is the Master we have been waiting for! Conker seated Halil Agha on Atatürk's right side and he himself took the chair that was reserved for him. After Atatürk explained in detail to the people at the table how he left the mansion with Conker that day, how he saw Halil Agha plowing with an ox on one side and a donkey on the other, how he spoke to him under the pretext of lighting a cigarette, he said: Now we will repeat the rest with Halil Agha. I will ask you the same questions from the beginning. Halil Agha also told me what he said there.

Turning to Halil Agha:
- Look, Halil Agha. You are my guest of honor this evening! I also told you today that I liked your frankness very much, our conversation will not harm you in any way. I will also take your ox... But now I will ask you the same questions I asked you in the field from the beginning, and you will repeat exactly what you said there. Here I ask:
- I see that there is an ox on one side of the plow and a donkey on the other. Don't you have an ox?..
- Hail Agha, his lips trembling, was about to throw himself at Atatürk's feet, Atatürk stopped him:

- No, look, I don't want such a thing, I'm asking, answer.
Halil Agha understood that there was no other way out than talking. Then, it was easy to answer this question; he called out.
- It was impossible, tax officers bought and sold in Hıdırellez!
Atatürk was very pleased. He gave Halil Agha morale and courage by patting his shoulder:
- Okay. Very good. Okay, you told me exactly as you told me during the day. Now I ask again:
- Does a tax officer ever sell a villager's means of production?. Such a thing is not possible! You should have complained to the headman.
This question was also easy. Halil Agha didn't act coy. Because he was thinking about the rest:
- The headman was at his head, sir!. - It's done, that's okay too. It's going well. I ask again:
-You should have gone to the District Governor!
He looked around and saw. The District Governor wasn't there:
-Not a bird can fly around here without the District Governor knowing!

The people at the table were watching the conversation breathlessly. It was time for the scary questions. Atatürk asked:
-Well, Istanbul is right there, you should have gone and told the Governor your troubles, isn't that his job?
Governor Muhitin Üstündağ was looking at him from only two meters away from Halil Agha, How could he say that?.. He was sweating profusely, he tried to evade the matter:
-We see our Governor Pasha around here. Could we make our troubles heard if we got on his skirt...
Atatürk's eyebrows furrowed:
-That's not right, Halil Agha!. Just like you told me, straight..
-Didn't we say that, sir?.
-Oh, did I misunderstand?. Let's ask Nuri.. Nuri, did Halil Agha tell us like that?.
- No, Pasha.
- See?.. So I didn't remember anything wrong. You said something, why didn't the governor hear it?..
- Accik can hear it faintly..
- Come on, come on, like you told me.
- Our language in the village is obsessed with saying deaf, I beg your pardon Pasha.. Atatürk started to laugh:
- You are a diplomat, you are a great diplomat!.. - But this is not the time to be a diplomat, we will speak the truth!.. Tell me now as you said there.,

Halil Agha closed his eyes and bowed his head:
- We were surprised and said, “Leave that deaf man alone.”..
Murmurs and laughter started at the table. Especially since İsmet Pasha did not like Governor Üstündağ, whom Atatürk supported and supported, he laughed loudly enough. Atatürk was looking at İsmet Pasha as if to say, “Wait, now it is your turn.”
- Let's say that happened. Let's move on to the rest: Well, there is a Prime Minister İsmet Pasha, do you know?..
Halil Agha, passing his eyes over Ismet Pasha's face:
- How can one not know our glorious Ismet Pasha!... Today, today...
Ataturk stopped Halil Agha's speech:
- Now, leave the praises aside. I will tell you the rest of the story: "Okay, then he comes to Istanbul almost every week. He goes down to the Florya Mansion, the mansion is right here. If you had waited for him at the door one day. He would have found a solution, I guess!"

As Halil Agha remembered what he had said, his life was running out. He tried to evade again:
-They won't let us go to the door, even if they do, will we burn our glorious Pasha? Atatürk's voice got even harsher and:
-Don't bother me Halil Agha. A man doesn't lie. Whatever you said, you will repeat the same thing!..

Halil Agha got scared, pulled himself together. He buried his head in the ground and spoke:
-We called our glorious Pasha deaf..
- Not just deaf, but "the deaf of the deaf"... Right?,
Halil Agha nodded his head looking down at the ground:
-That's what we said, Pasha. You're right!..
I am asking you the last question now, give me the answer to this too, take the ox and go:
- Write down the husband, isn't Atatürk sitting right here?.. If you had gone, come out to him, told him your situation!. He wasn't going to abandon you either, was he?..
- Would he ever leave, would he ever leave my lion Pasha!.. He would melt and reach, come to my field, listen to my situation!..
- Leave them, Halil Agha, repeat what you said!
Halil Agha suddenly stood up straight. He straightened up with the bravery of people who have risked everything. He looked into Ataturk's eyes and spoke.
- That's what I won't say! Put fire in my mouth That's what I won't say, Pasha!.
Ataturk started to laugh:
- This Halil Agha will make things difficult for us, he doesn't understand words. Nuri, it's in your mind, you tell him so that Halil Agha can explain whether you said it or not.
Nuri Conker stood up, smiling:
- You always run me into difficult jobs, Pasha. If I am not mistaken, Mustafa Kemal Pasha had said that it would take the power of a prophet to see our Atatürk's face. Even if I did, he would raise his head from his work, his eating and drinking and run after our ox, he said.

Tears were in Halil Agha's eyes, he shook his head. He was standing there. Atatürk spoke:
- You brought it to Atatürk being a drunkard who had taken to drinking, I won't insist too much. Now listen to me Halil Agha! The reason I upset you so much was to tell you this. The six gentlemen you see are the government.. In other words, one is the Prime Minister and the others are Ministers! They were brought to this position to look after the country and to turn things around. When a law was needed, these gentlemen would immediately get involved, whether it was from Switzerland, Italy or France, in short, they would come up with a law from somewhere, have it translated into Turkish, then print it, sign it and send it to the Grand National Assembly.. When I say the Grand National Assembly, I mean the gentlemen from the bottom to your side. The law comes to them, and they say, “The government has certainly examined it and thought about what is necessary, there is no need for me to be forced”, and raise their fingers, here is a law for you!.. But then a tax officer comes, pulls Halil Agha’s ox and sells it for tax debt. Halil Agha tries to plow his field with a donkey on one side and an ox on the other, with great effort. But production decreases, planting becomes difficult, who cares!. Then I see these, my heart bleeds, I hear them, I grieve… So tell me honestly, Halil Agha, if you were in my place, wouldn’t you sit down and talk with these gentlemen and drink these things to calm your mood?. But then Halil Agha catches you and calls you drunk!. Halil Agha’s tongue was loosened:
 

-May the great God grant you a share of my life, Pasha, may he grant you health!.
Then Halil Aga politely turned his head aside and emptied the glass in one sip. His face was red, his eyes were shining. He put his hands on his knees and turned to Atatürk:
- You poured Yonan into the sea, Pasha, You raised our flag at our head.!.. You took a piece of a peasant like me to your table and made me drink, I can't even bring myself to pray to you... Why am I?.. Let me kiss your foot, oh Pasha!.

He moved to kiss his foot, Atatürk immediately held it, when he held it, he hugged his hand, kissed it and put it on his head
- May you never be absent from our head like our flag. May your enemy be under your feet. Let me not eat, my great Pasha.
- You didn't eat!
-Eating is easy... The children are curious, I'll go to the village..
Ataturk signaled Nuri Conker. Conker got up and came to Halil Aga. Halil Aga got up, greeted Atatürk first, then the people at the table, and respectfully stepped back towards the door.

When the door was closed, Atatürk returned to the table and said:
-Have you seen the state of our Lord, gentlemen? What would you do if the state treated you like this? This is a blessed nation, a manly nation!.. Now it is up to us to "be a man" in front of him!.

There was absolute silence at the table. Eyes on Atatürk:
-Either we made the law that sold Halil Aga's ox and disrupted production, or the law we made was misinterpreted and sold Halil Aga's ox, both are the same in my opinion... If we made such a law, it is against the interests of the country, how can we do it?. If the law we made is interpreted like this, what kind of government is the government in? Then don't forget that the event takes place in Istanbul.

There is Van, Bitlis, and a coastal district; what is going on there? This wheel is not turning well, gentlemen!.
Ataturk had fallen silent. No one was speaking, Ismet Inonu looked around at his friends, then coughed slightly and spoke:
- You are right, Pasha! I think this is the result of a wrong application. I will investigate it with importance! As a government, we do not have enough human capacity, we know that. But our duty is to turn the wheel well, as you commanded, and we will!..
Neither Ataturk nor the people at the table touched the drink. The table was like a wide-ranging Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister had spoken to satisfy the President. But Ataturk was still angry. He directed the question to Ismet Pasha:
- Has such an incident ever been reported to you?
- No, Pasha, if it had been, I would have certainly dealt with it.
-I also put my finger here, We did not establish the Republic for decoration.

We did it to establish a government that was in favor of the society. The government has inspectors, governors, district governors, they are selling Halil Agha's ox due to tax debt. Of course they should know what they are doing... They are not telling you anything, they are trying to show tax revenues by selling Halil Agha's ox!.. Let's leave these aside, we have MP friends who are getting travel allowances, they are talking to the society, the people, and they are not telling you anything either. We have a party organization, they should live side by side with the people, and they are not talking about such an application that is detrimental to the country. What does this mean?. It is to think that we established a system not with the society and for the society, but despite the society! This is where I am really upset and put my finger on it! Gentlemen, we have not been able to explain the Republic, this is what comes out of this!.

We have to explain what the Republic is. This is the duty of the government and the party! You are the President of both, Prime Minister Pasha! We absolutely do not accept the excuse of human capacity. Thirteen years have passed since the Republic. Those who started school that day are studying at universities today. Those who are in middle schools are either in the state staff or within the party organization today... Aren't these the defenders of the Republic against every danger? So where are they? Either we could not explain the Republic to them, or worse, they have also become pedants!
The survival of the revolutions we have made depends on raising a conscious Republic and Revolution generation. If what happened to Halil Agha does not reach the government and the Grand National Assembly, it means there is danger!
Atatürk looked at İsmet İnönü's face. İnönü was about to speak, but Atatürk silenced him with his hand:
-I know what you are going to say. We have exhausted our friends at the table and prevented them from eating. Come on, gentlemen; it is for the honor of us to grasp our duty even more tightly and work harder to succeed!