People holding Turkish flags and a poster of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, stand in a queue to enter the room where Ataturk died 71 years ago, at the Ottoman-era Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul November 10, 2009. Ataturk, the first president of Turkey from 1923 and founder of the modern secular state, died in the palace on November 10, 1938. Reuters Pictures 1 week ago

People holding Turkish flags and a poster of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, stand in a queue to enter the room where Ataturk died 71 years ago, at the Ottoman-era Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul November 10, 2009. Ataturk, the first president of Turkey from 1923 and founder of the modern secular state, died in the palace on November 10, 1938.

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