Ataturk Quote by Mehmet Murat ildan

“The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only…

— 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

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

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

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

“We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud…

— Orhan Pamuk

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

The great thing about the Young Turks is that we've always stayed true to our principles.

— Ana Kasparian

“The Turk and the devils break through without any trouble and lay everything waste, because God does not want His people to trust in…

— Martin Luther

“These religious Turks soon got their facts right. The liberal West, they realized, was better than the illiberal “Westernizers” at home.”

— Mustafa Akyol