Ataturk Archive

  • Ari Katz Turkey is a predominantly Sunni Muslim, ethnically Turkish country with a Kurdish minority. Its role in several ongoing geopolitical sagas, its increasingly public Islamic conservatism, and its newly...

    Turkey: Modern Assertiveness in a Globalized World

    Ari Katz Turkey is a predominantly Sunni Muslim, ethnically Turkish country with a Kurdish minority. Its role in several ongoing geopolitical sagas, its increasingly public Islamic conservatism, and its newly...

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  • It Will Not Happen to Me! Guess What? It Wll !!! Chapter 8 We as concerned citizens must rescue our governments from the privileged few or we will find ourselves...

    It Will not happen to me. Guess What? It Will! Chapter 8

    It Will Not Happen to Me! Guess What? It Wll !!! Chapter 8 We as concerned citizens must rescue our governments from the privileged few or we will find ourselves...

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  • Kemalism is dead, but not Ataturk Editor’s Note: Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a GPS contributor. You can find all...

    Kemalism is dead, but not Ataturk

    Kemalism is dead, but not Ataturk Editor’s Note: Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a GPS contributor. You can find all...

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  • Those heroes that shed their blood And lost their lives. You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between...

    Canakkale Battles

    Those heroes that shed their blood And lost their lives. You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between...

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  • Help us decide which five military leaders are represented at Enemy Commanders: Britain’s Greatest Foes, a celebrity speaker event on Saturday 14 April 2012. Find out more about the shortlist and how to...

    Who Was the Greatest Commander to Face the British?

    Help us decide which five military leaders are represented at Enemy Commanders: Britain’s Greatest Foes, a celebrity speaker event on Saturday 14 April 2012. Find out more about the shortlist and how to...

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  • International Gallipoli Symposium will be held in İstanbul Academics, scientists and researchers from Turkey, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Germany and Britain will attend the conference. The 3rd International Gallipoli Symposium...

    International Gallipoli Symposium will be held in İstanbul

    International Gallipoli Symposium will be held in İstanbul Academics, scientists and researchers from Turkey, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Germany and Britain will attend the conference. The 3rd International Gallipoli Symposium...

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  • VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU Once home to the most elegants ball of the times, Atatürk’s favorite Hotel, Tokatlıyan, is now facing an unknown future. Considered as a great piece of architecture, the...

    Atatürk’s favorite hotel still doomed

    VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU Once home to the most elegants ball of the times, Atatürk’s favorite Hotel, Tokatlıyan, is now facing an unknown future. Considered as a great piece of architecture, the...

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  • Forgotten soldiers. We all know about Gallipoli; hopelessly conceived mess, dreamed up by Churchill to move the Great War from the glued trenches of France to a fast-moving invasion of...

    Robert Fisk: Great War secrets of the Ottoman Arabs

    Forgotten soldiers. We all know about Gallipoli; hopelessly conceived mess, dreamed up by Churchill to move the Great War from the glued trenches of France to a fast-moving invasion of...

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  • Thomas Seibert ISTANBUL // Six decades after it came into force, a law protecting the memory of the republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk still has the power to rock careers,...

    Some Turks ready to abolish law that protects memory of Ataturk

    Thomas Seibert ISTANBUL // Six decades after it came into force, a law protecting the memory of the republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk still has the power to rock careers,...

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  • Written by Patriot Staff August 19, 2011 As the grandson of Russell Boardman, I enjoyed reading Ms. Roscoe’s review of the premiere showing of Cape Cod over Istanbul [Aug. 5,...

    Setting the record straight

    Written by Patriot Staff August 19, 2011 As the grandson of Russell Boardman, I enjoyed reading Ms. Roscoe’s review of the premiere showing of Cape Cod over Istanbul [Aug. 5,...

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  • By Austin Bay Even for a television talk show, it was an extraordinary claim. During his January 1, 2000, end-of-the-millennium broadcast, “McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin declared that his award...

    Ataturk’s vision for Turkey slowly diminishing

    By Austin Bay Even for a television talk show, it was an extraordinary claim. During his January 1, 2000, end-of-the-millennium broadcast, “McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin declared that his award...

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  • Notwithstanding, there is little doubt that Atatürk will remain a towering historical figure among Turks. Reactionary forces that resist change and want to hold on to the past will not hold the Turkish nation hostage to their hatred and bigotry.

    Atatürk will remain a towering figure among Turks

    Notwithstanding, there is little doubt that Atatürk will remain a towering historical figure among Turks. Reactionary forces that resist change and want to hold on to the past will not hold the Turkish nation hostage to their hatred and bigotry.

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  • Written by Lee Roscoe August 05, 2011 LEE ROSCOE PHOTO FAMILY PRIDE – Dorothy Polando and son David enjoy the reception for a new documentary about John Polando and Russell Boardman’s...

    When ‘Cape Cod’ flew to Istanbul

    Written by Lee Roscoe August 05, 2011 LEE ROSCOE PHOTO FAMILY PRIDE – Dorothy Polando and son David enjoy the reception for a new documentary about John Polando and Russell Boardman’s...

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  • ATATURK SOCIETIES OF USA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM STRONGLY OPPOSE THE TURKISH RULING PARTY’S DECLARED INTENTION TO CHANGE “TURKEY’S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES” PROTECTED BY THE CURRENT CONSTITUTION Turkey’s ruling Justice and...

    ATATURK SOCIETIES OF USA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM STRONGLY OPPOSE

    ATATURK SOCIETIES OF USA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM STRONGLY OPPOSE THE TURKISH RULING PARTY’S DECLARED INTENTION TO CHANGE “TURKEY’S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES” PROTECTED BY THE CURRENT CONSTITUTION Turkey’s ruling Justice and...

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  • 19 May 2011, Thursday / E. BARIŞ ALTINTAŞ , İSTANBUL “One language, one flag, one motherland,” reads a choreographed formation of Kuleli military cadets who performed for May 19 Youth...

    Turkey celebrates another May 19 with fascistic overtones

    19 May 2011, Thursday / E. BARIŞ ALTINTAŞ , İSTANBUL “One language, one flag, one motherland,” reads a choreographed formation of Kuleli military cadets who performed for May 19 Youth...

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  • The Times (UK), 5 April 2011, p. 1-19 Norman Stone * A slow, draconian process of modernisation and a hostile attitude to Islam is no model for the Arab world...

    This Spring won’t breed any more Turkeys

    The Times (UK), 5 April 2011, p. 1-19 Norman Stone * A slow, draconian process of modernisation and a hostile attitude to Islam is no model for the Arab world...

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  • By: Tom Ford ISTANBUL, Turkey — They’re hanging strings of tiny, pastel flags across some of the main streets of this ancient city of 16 million. Turkey’s 25 political parties are...

    Ataturk’s legacy gets second look

    By: Tom Ford ISTANBUL, Turkey — They’re hanging strings of tiny, pastel flags across some of the main streets of this ancient city of 16 million. Turkey’s 25 political parties are...

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  • Gavin Hewitt In the era of awakenings, upheavals and revolutions: watch Turkey. It has become a hugely ambitious country, bristling with self-belief. In a turbulent Middle East it believes it...

    Turkey: The growing power

    Gavin Hewitt In the era of awakenings, upheavals and revolutions: watch Turkey. It has become a hugely ambitious country, bristling with self-belief. In a turbulent Middle East it believes it...

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  • The outbreak of the riots in Libya just after Tunisia and Egypt (Libia is geographically between these two) makes evident that the riots in North Africa has caused domino effect....

    Libya: From Tripoli War to Struggle Against Gaddafi

    The outbreak of the riots in Libya just after Tunisia and Egypt (Libia is geographically between these two) makes evident that the riots in North Africa has caused domino effect....

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  • Financial Times’dan bir okuyucu mektubunu bilginize sunuyorum…… Pulat Tacar ================================================================ Kemalism still has an important role to play in Turkey Published: February 9 2011 00:12 | Last updated: February 9...

    Kemalism still has an important role to play in Turkey

    Financial Times’dan bir okuyucu mektubunu bilginize sunuyorum…… Pulat Tacar ================================================================ Kemalism still has an important role to play in Turkey Published: February 9 2011 00:12 | Last updated: February 9...

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