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We Will Not Leave You, Your Greatest Work is Entrusted to Us Anatolia, which we call our homeland today; was pushed to the background, even forgotten, and its people were left alone in the last two hundred years of the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk laid the foundations of the National Struggle in the heart of Anatolia. After the victory, with the declaration of the Republic, he traveled every inch of Anatolia and preferred to be in touch with his citizens; he made the people's troubles his own. He saw the people not as subjects, but as citizens with equal rights and always acted that way; from city dwellers to villagers, from women to men... Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first leader to truly meet with the people of Anatolia. While he equipped the country with iron networks, he also made his domestic tours with a train called the "White Train". He traveled all over the country from beginning to end with long journeys that lasted for months. Atatürk, who traveled the country with this train until the last days of his life, also traveled to eternity with this train. With the sad news from Dolmabahçe Palace, all of Turkey fell into a heavy silence. Following the great loss of our Great Leader, his final journey began with a sadness too deep to fit into history. Our Ataturk's body was transferred from Dolmabahçe Palace to Izmit on the Yavuz Battleship. The train he was transferred to from here was met with such intense interest that it was able to reach Ankara in exactly 17 hours. This was the farewell ceremony of a nation. Atatürk, who never left the people of Anatolia alone for a moment, did not leave the people alone on his final journey either. People from villages and towns flooded the train until it almost came to a halt. Thousands of people waited on the roads with tears in their eyes, flowers in their hands, and an indescribable pain in their hearts to meet the train and bid him farewell one last time. Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was sent off on his eternal journey with perhaps the longest farewell in the world. This was much more than an ordinary farewell. This was the eternal journey of a leader's love for his people and the devotion his people felt for him.