He is called the “father of the people” and “the Savior of the nation.” In Turkey, his portraits can be seen not only in all state institutions, but also in millions of private houses. The “man of fate” was called Ataturka by his former enemy Winston Churchill. It was Mustafa Kemal who inflicted the British defeat in Dardanella, forced Churchill to resign. It was Ataturk who broke the move, which seemed to be hopelessly lost to the war with Greece and “raised the Turks from the knees,” retaining state independence. It was President Kemal that made the impossible, having carried out grandiose reforms, modernizing the country, forcing the Turks to dress hats instead of fescs, to accept Latin instead of Arabic, to live according to European judicial codes, and not according to Sharia law, to develop national industry and trade. It was Ataturk who laid the foundations of current prosperity, turning the backward, Asian Ottoman Empire into modern, secular, Europeanized Turkey. But on the way to this goal, he had to resort to Asia more than once …
Author
Vladimirsky Alexander Vladimirovich
Editor
Ivanov A.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
Geniuses of power
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