Round 1: Tossup 9

Some military monuments erroneously credit this leader with a quote about “Johnnies” who “have become our sons” after losing their lives. Under this leader, the “Hearths” promoted a pseudoscientific “history thesis” regarding his people’s supposed origins around a massive inner sea. School curricula quickly adopted a historiographical speech delivered by this leader over 6 days called the Nutuk (“Noo-TOOK”). Under this (15[1])leader, (15[1])the TLA supported theories that all (*) languages descend from the ancestral “Sun Language” and removed loanwords from Arabic and Persian. Some nationalist historians in one country deny that this (10[1])founding leader of the CHP continued anti-Christian violence committed by the Committee for Union and Progress. For 10 points, what first post-Ottoman president moved his capital to Ankara? ■END■

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