{"id":824686,"date":"2025-07-23T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=824686"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:20:38","slug":"that-was-the-turkiye-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2025\/07\/23\/that-was-the-turkiye-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"That was the T\u00fcrkiye of the past!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is sadly and regretfully not the glorious, victorious T\u00fcrkiye who rase from her ashes following the Second World War, that we see now but a totally different one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took off from the ruins of a backward, illiterate, humiliated Empire and yet turned to be victorious within a lightening speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was the T\u00fcrkiye of the past!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-turkish-forum wp-block-embed-turkish-forum\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"41BGEx92XG\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2025\/07\/22\/turkiye-is-not-our-grandfathers-turkiye\/\">T\u00fcrkiye is Not Our Grandfather&#8217;s T\u00fcrkiye<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;T\u00fcrkiye is Not Our Grandfather&#8217;s T\u00fcrkiye&#8221; &#8212; Turkish Forum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2025\/07\/22\/turkiye-is-not-our-grandfathers-turkiye\/embed\/#?secret=c8Xo81oRiT#?secret=41BGEx92XG\" data-secret=\"41BGEx92XG\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No Country in the World had shown similar recovery in such a spectacular way and speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please show me just one, throughout the History?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In brief, from humiliated losers to Victorious founders of Republic of T\u00fcrkiye.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the founding of a fresh, dynamic young Republic, built by the TURKISH people, who proudly shouted from their chests, proud to be a TURK, regardless of their ethnicity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a traitor Sultan of an aging, ailing backward, crippling Khalifate to a modern, progressive, respected Republic of T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There is not a single Leader<\/strong>, King, President, Emperor, Commander or ruler,&nbsp;<strong>who is truly worshipped by millions,still, even 85 years of his death!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generations worship his wisdom, progressive, peaceful and constructive past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Short while before his death, had a lengthy conversation with General MacArthur where he predicted the beginning and the end of the second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His will to the young Republic of T\u00fcrkiye, \u201cPeace in the Country and Peace in the World\u201d saved our beautiful Country from all the evil most of the World suffered!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gratitude-to-ataturk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-824687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gratitude-to-ataturk.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gratitude-to-ataturk-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As a NATION we are grateful to H\u0130M!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I doubt if there is any leader where any number of books written about him can even come close to his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The name of the founder of the past of glorious Republic of T\u00fcrkiye is Mustafa Kemal ATAT\u00dcRK.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whole World understood, praised and awarded him as the Statesman of the Century.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes,&nbsp;apparently having no clue of the past of the Republic and what T\u00fcrkiye went through and how it had been destroyed by the radical \u0130slamists with the help of our friends and allies will not have a clue and think that Turkiye is as described as in the text below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The T\u00fcrkiye of now is Bankrupt, where the majority of the people are living below the poverty line, education is literally in the middle ages, Justice is minced and non existent, one can build Universities from the unjustly detained literate, educated people. Majority of the publicly elected Majors are detained and the innocent protests are crushed with brutal force.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Country suffers the worst of a dictatorship!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I, as a Turk see or have nothing to be proud of the current disastrous situation of the beautiful Country called T\u00fcrkiye!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s T\u00fcrkiye is on the path of becoming another Afghanistan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radical, \u0130slamic ruled and predominantly \u0130slamic clerics in the helm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is the rule of&nbsp;<strong>Taliban<\/strong>&nbsp;and in T\u00fcrkiye the rule of one man called&nbsp;<strong>Tayyiban<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strange isn\u2019t it! Just like his predecessors, he is also found, doctrinated, manipulated, used as a trigger to destabilize the Country, T\u00fcrkiye and the Region by our friend, indispensible ally, leader of the World Democracy and the free World, USA!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the so called the democratic, free World of the WEST and their populist politicians are digging a deeper grave with their ill fated and miserably dangerous policies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is no one else but themselves to blame by creating and using such pawns and trying to wash brains for their doomed end!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truly sad for the bright, handsome and beautiful young generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With these politicians, they don\u2019t have a future!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr.Mustafa Ata\u00e7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-turkish-forum wp-block-embed-turkish-forum\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"41BGEx92XG\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2025\/07\/22\/turkiye-is-not-our-grandfathers-turkiye\/\">T\u00fcrkiye is Not Our Grandfather&#8217;s T\u00fcrkiye<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;T\u00fcrkiye is Not Our Grandfather&#8217;s T\u00fcrkiye&#8221; &#8212; Turkish Forum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2025\/07\/22\/turkiye-is-not-our-grandfathers-turkiye\/embed\/#?secret=c8Xo81oRiT#?secret=41BGEx92XG\" data-secret=\"41BGEx92XG\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is sadly and regretfully not the glorious, victorious T\u00fcrkiye who rase from her ashes following the Second World War, that we see now but a totally different one! Took off from the ruins of a backward, illiterate, humiliated Empire and yet turned to be victorious within a lightening speed. 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