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Eleni Karinte

First love of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Field	Value
name	Eleni Karintine
other_names	Eleni Kriyas
partner	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
family	Edrim Karintine (father)

Eleni Karinte () was a Greek woman of Aromanian descent, popularly known as the first love of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Little is known of Mustafa Kemal's relationship with Eleni, who fell in love with him while he was a student in Monastir (today Bitola). According to the folk story, they exchanged glances while she watched him from her balcony, but her wealthy merchant father did not approve of this relationship, and locked her in the house when she tried to elope. Eftim Karinte later took her to Florina, where he tried to marry her off to another man.

No documents attest this other than a letter purportedly written by Karinte.

In popular culture

The love story inspired a play by Dejan Dukovski, later filmed by Aleksandar Popovski. It has also inspired a monodrama with Nikolina Vasilevska in the role of Eleni.

References

(3 August 2009). "Turkish tourists follow traces of Atatürk in Balkans". Anatolia News Agency.
Vessela S. Warner. (2020). "Re/Writing a Nation: Symbolic Narratives and Cultural Politics in North Macedonian Postcolonial and Postcommunist Drama". The Slavic and East European Journal.
Muriel Girard, Jean-François Polo, Clémence Scalbert-Yücel as ed., Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World, Springer, 2018, {{ISBN. 3319636588, p. 58.
Emiliya Misirlievska. (8 Aug 2012). "Atatürk ve Eleni Aşkının Hikayesi – Turistlerin İlgi Odağı". Balkon3.
(10 July 2018). "Процут на Центар Жупа, родниот крај на Ататурк".

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