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Atatürk in His Lifetime and Today
Dr Andrew Mango
As the architect of the Turkish national state, Atatürk was bound to be unpopular with rival nationalists whose territorial claims he had defeated. But he cannot be blamed for the disappearance of the ethnic diversity of the Ottoman state. The erosion of the peaceful cohabitation of the various ethnic communities ruled by the Ottoman Sultans had started with the rise of nationalism a century earlier.
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Atatürk, The Psychology of the Man
Dr. Engin Inel Holmstrom
Military hero. National liberator. Charismatic leader. Unparalleled social reformer. Prominent statesman. A genius international peacemaker. Father of his country. These are some of the exalted phrases generally used to describe Atatürk. These attributes, beyond the reach of ordinary human beings, tend to deify him and make us forget that he was just a man. Not an ordinary man, for sure, but nonetheless a man, with feelings, likes, dislikes, worries, strengths and weaknesses.
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Atatürk-Bethoven-Einstein
Prof. Behram Kursunoglu
One of the walls of my office is graced with the pictures of Atatürk, Beethoven, and Einstein placed side by side. Occasionally visitors, when they enter, inquire about this triad of immortality in statesmanship, in classical music, and in physics.
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Atatürk's Policy Towards Great Powers: Principles and Guidelines*
Aryeh Shmuelevitz
Much has been written about Turkish foreign policy between the two world wars. However, the source materials available is still limited, for three main reasons: (a) the Turkish archives are still closed; (b) foreign policy from 1922 until at least 1945 was the exclusive responsibility of the president, the prime minister, the foreign minister, and a small group of foreign ministry officials, with a minimum discussion in parliament or the press; (c) the three men who formulated foreign policy in those years-President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Prime Minister Ismet Inonu, and the Foreign Minister Tevfik Rustu Aras-dealt with foreign policy only on a limited scale, and usually in general terms.
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Atatürk's Prophesies: Why Douglas MacArthur Believed in them too?
Stories compiled By Prof. Mahmut Esat Ozan
It was on November 24, 1935 that Mustafa Kemal, the first president of the young Turkish Republic, was given the name of ATATÜRK by the Grand National Assembly. He had led his people through war into self-government and finally into an entirely new way of life. He had been their teacher, adviser, as well as the father of the entire nation, since the word "Ata" in Turkish means just that.
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Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasa (Atatürk) and an American Journalist
Ayse Cebesoy Sarialp
An American navy man, Admiral Bristol, American Ambassador to Turkey, became a true friend of Atatürk and his friends and supported the Turkish national struggle in all sincerity. Ambassador Grew, the first American Ambassador after the proclamation of the Republic, who had attended the Lausanne Treaty Conference as a member of the American delegation, presented a true picture of the Turkish National Struggle in his two-volume book called The Turbulent Era.
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Militant Islam and Atatürk’s political philosophy
Metin Camcigil
The following excerpts from a paper presented by the President at the 25th Energy Conference organized by the Global Foundation, Inc. on "Addressing Vulnerabilities: Science & Technology in Secure Energy Systems" in October 2002 in Washington DC are reproduced with his permission because of their relevance to the topic discussed in this issue.
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Une 'déclaration' faussement attribuée à Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK
Prof. Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv
L'appareil de propagande de certains cercles arméniens fait état du fait que Mustafa Kemal, devenu depuis Atatürk (1881-1938), le fondateur de la République Turque, aurait reconnu "la responsabilité de l'Etat ottoman relativement au génocide arménien'. Des références sont faites à cette prétendue "déclaration', condamnant à la fois les événements de 1915 et les membres dirigeants du Comité Union et Progrès (Ittihad et Terakki), non seulement dans plusieurs publications arméniennes, mais également dans d'autres articles de propagande en langues étrangères, notamment en français.
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