the biography of the founder of modern turkey

• "wisdom came with experience."
  
  no doubt mustafa kemal believed that his career required his presence in libya. but would he have gone if he had known not only that the mission was useless, but that , during his absence, the greeks were to capture his native town , where is mother still had her home ?
  
  in the letter he sent to salih (bozok) from cyrenaica on 8/9 may 1912, mustafa kemal comrades had set themselves was to retrieve "these warm and friendly borderlands of the fatherland".
  
  but on 21 december of the same year, after disaster had struck in the balkans, he admitted that his decision to fight the italians in cyrenaica had been "precipitate and pointless".
  
  wisdom came with experience.
  
  (bkz: hasan tahsin paşa) , (bkz: esat toptani) .