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You're standing at the Atatürk Museum in Thessaloniki, on Apostolou Pavlou Street, right next to the Turkish Consulate. Take a look at that pink house with its three floors and its courtyard. This is where Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881, the man who would later, as Atatürk, found modern Turkey. A Turkish leader born in Greece? It sounds odd, but back then this city, known as Salonika, was still part of the Ottoman Empire.
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