Ataturk Quote by Mehmet Murat ildan

“What makes a man great is all the good things he left behind and as for Atatürk, thinking generations and questioning minds are the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and…

— Stephen Kinzer

“We in the West still seemed to believe the old story of how a man transformed an Islamic empire into a secular republic: Atatürk…

— Suzy Hansen

Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist,…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Bernard Lewis was most likely unaware of the Turkish leader’s fan base among Nazis and Fascists when he hailed Atatürk for taking, with his…

— Pankaj Mishra

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history…

— Ahmet Ertegun

“In this sense, Islamism in Turkey was at least partly an unintended consequence of Kemalism. The latter’s zeal against Ottoman tradition impoverished Islamic thought,…

— Mustafa Akyol

“Politics in Turkey are taken more seriously than they are at home. It was only quite recently that they executed a Prime Minister. We…

— Graham Greene

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

“You are either Ataturk's turk or Erdogan's turk, you cannot be both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“As liberal columnist Şahin Alpay points out, however, the fundamental division in Turkish society is not between Islamists and secularists but between those who…

— Graham E. Fuller

I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do…

— Tariq Ramadan