Posts Tagged: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

How Erdogan’s Victory Might Be Europe’s Defeat
Over lunch in Istanbul last week, a friend and I spoke about the upcoming Turkish referendum. "Many European Turks are likely to vote 'yes,'" I...

Turkey: A State in Denial
As a nation and state, Turkey appears to be in denial about many historical and sociological realities of the land on which it was established...

Turkey Continues Its Irrevocable Slide to Becoming an Islamic Theocracy
Modern Turkey bears little resemblance to the secular republic created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923. Over the past decade, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's...