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A month hence, Ataturk's body, which has lain in a "temporary" resting place these past 15 years, will be borne with ceremonial pomp to a new mausoleum on Ankara's highest hill. The mausoleum, reached by 33 marble steps 132 feet wide, will probably be the biggest of its kind, until Evita Peron's or the proposed Soviet pantheon tops it. For three days, Turkey's 21 million citizens will do him honor.
"I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way," Ataturk had said. "Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done." On his bronze statue overlooking the Golden Horn is another message to his people: "Turk! Be proud, hardworking and self-reliant!"