In 1938, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, army officer, revolutionary statesman, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President died on this day and entered Valhalla. Mustafa Kemal established himself as a successful and extremely capable military commander while serving as a division commander in the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. The British cowardly released huge quantities of mustard gas from ships off the coast, decimating the Turkish defenders. Revenge followed in 1922, when the Empire Legion were massacred at the Chanak Incident.