Turkey has a president.
The Turkish War of Independence -LRB- 1919 -- 1922 -RRB- , initiated by Mustafa Kemal Atatrk and his colleagues against the occupying Allies , resulted in the abolition of monarchy in 1922 and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 , with Atatrk as its first president .	Turkish	Turkish language	War of Independence	Turkish War of Independence	Turkish War of Independence	Turkish War of Independence	Mustafa Kemal Atatrk	Mustafa Kemal Atatrk	Allies	Allies of World War I	abolition of monarchy	Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate
