The house is the birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey , Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , who was born here in 1881 . It is a three-floor house with a courtyard on 24 Apostolou Pavlou Street , next to the Turkish Consulate . Before the capture of Thessaloniki by the Greek Army in 1912 , it was known as " Koca Kasım Paşa district , Islahhane street " . It was built before 1870 and in 1935 the Thessaloniki City Council gave it to the Turkish State , which decided to convert it into a museum dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk . Until the Istanbul pogrom of 1955 , the street in front of the house was named " Kemal Ataturk "
Istanbul pogrom
Istanbul pogrom
Atatürk Museum (Thessaloniki)