both advocated that Turks in all over the world have the right to determine their own destinies just as other human beings and nations and stressed that poverty and ignorance was the biggest enemy of Turkish nation like all humanity. He expressed realization of human rights in Turkish culture concepts and language as “Our struggle is for respect for human dignity and to make it dominate in human minds” and left it as an inheritance to Turkish nationalists.

Idealist Organizations, Turkish Idealists Organization, Young Idealists, Great Ideal Association, Association of Ideal Organizations, Association of Idealist Youth, Ideal Path Association and thousands of local cultural associations, pioneering the on-governmental organizations accepted as the determinants of 21st century democracies spread the habit of expression of common solutions and common problems.

He turned Turkish youth into individuals with objectives of serving Turkish nationalism ideal and feeling themselves meaningful via non-governmental organizations.

He established occupational unions for all fields of business sector and spread sensitivity for nationalist issues together with occupational solidarity and development in masses. By materializing various non-governmental organizations such as Idealist Technical Employees, Idealist Teachers and Association of instructors, Association of University assistants, Idealist Financiers and Economists Association, Nationalist Trade Unions Confederation, Nationalist Painter and Sculptors Association, Idealist Journalists Community, Idealist Quarter Chiefs Association, Idealist Technical Employees Association, Medical Students Association, Police Union and Idealist Women in the last quarter of 20th century, he proved his foreseeing the future once more.

One of the most distinguishing aspects of Turkish nationalism is to foresee future knowing the history and today and monitoring the development of the world. In Alparslan Turkes’ words:

Today is total of yesterday and seed of tomorrow. This is the reason for the activities and proposals of Alparslan Turkes, despite his holding high objectives.

The expression of gratitude by public conscience for his services and pains he suffered for Turkish nation in addition to his great love and respect for Turkish nation was the title of “leader of Turkish World”.

Alparslan Turkes has 4 daughters, Ayzıt, Umay, Seven Bige(Çağrı) and Selcen and a son named Yıldırım Tuğrul from his first wife Muzaffer Şükriye Türkeş. He has a son and a daughter named Ayyüce and Ahmet Kutalmış from his second wife Seval Türkes. Alparslan Turkes passed away on 4 April 1997.

The book by Alparslan Turkes named 9 Lights Doctrine which constitutes a project for development of Turkey is entitled to be the most published book before 1980. He has 9 more books named 1944 Milliyetçilik Olayı, Türkiye'nin Meseleleri, Yeni Ufuklara Doğru, Dış Politikamız ve Kıbrıs, Temel Görüşler, 27 Mayıs ve Gerçekleri, Gönül Seferberliği and Kahramanlık Ruhu and many articles and conferences published in various media.

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