Since then, Turkey celebrates Republic Day on Oct.
29, 1923, Atatürk officially declared the name of the nation and proclaimed the country’s status as a republic.Ī vote then took place in the Grand National Assembly, and Atatürk, a revolutionary statesman, was elected the first president of the Republic of Turkey by unanimous vote. In the northern province of Samsun, a 1,919-meter-long Turkish flag was knitted.ĭivers in the Alanya district of the southern province of Antalya unfurled a Turkish flag underwater.
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