1914, 11 may,TURKEY : The Turkish politician Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 - 1938) in parade uniform of the Janissaries in Sofia, Bulgaria. President of Republican People's Party (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP) is a Kemalist and Social-Democratic political party in Turkey. was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey. His surname, Atatürk (meaning "Father of the Turks"), was granted to him in 1934 and forbidden to any other person by the Turkish parliament.