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National Sovereignty and Children's Day
April 23, 1920, is the day that Turkish citizens declared their sovereignty by creating the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ; thus, declaring sovereignty from the Ottoman Empire. On April 23, 1923, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk made the day an official holiday. Five years later Mustafa Kemal Atatürk devoted the holiday to children because he (Ataturk) believed that children are "the light, rose, and star of the future. They (children) are the ones who will flood the country with light and prosperity." . Thus, Turkey became the first and only country in the world to devote a holiday that celebrates 'children's day'.