He was the father of the founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Ali Riza Efendi was born in 1841, in Salonica. He comes from a Turkmen family immigrated to Salonica from Soke. After he completed his education he had begun to work in different governmental offices. He married to Zubeyde the daughter of Sufi Feyzullah.

In 1876, he joined the army as an officer. Later, he began to trading. He had five children but only Mustafa and Makbule could have lived. Ali Riza Efendi had died in 1888.

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