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Today the Soviet Union is a friend and an ally. We need this friendship. However, no one can know what will happen tomorrow. Just like the Ottoman an… - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
" "Today the Soviet Union is a friend and an ally. We need this friendship. However, no one can know what will happen tomorrow. Just like the Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian Empires it may tear itself apart or shrink in size. Those peoples that it holds so tightly in its grip may one day slip away. The world may see a new balance of power. It is then that Turkey must know what to do. Ally Soviets have under their control our brothers with whom we share language, beliefs and roots. We must be prepared to embrace them. Being ready does not mean that we will sit quietly and wait. We must get ready. How does a people get prepared for such an endeavour? By strengthening the natural bridges that exist between us. Language is a bridge... Religion is a bridge... History is a bridge... We must delve into our roots and reconstruct what history has divided. We can't wait for them to approach us. We must reach out to them.
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About Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Kemal Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1934, Kamâl Atatürk from 1935 to 1937, commonly referred to as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. His benevolent dictatorship undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and theories became known as Kemalism. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded according to studies as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.
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Father of the Turks
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Mustapha Kemal Pasha
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Mustafa Kemal Paşa
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Mustafa Kemal Pascha
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Mustafa Kemal
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Mustafa Pascha Kemal
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Kemal Pasha
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Mustafa Kemal Pasha
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Atatürk
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Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha
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Kamâl Atatürk
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Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Kemal Ataturk
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Mustapha Kemal Ataturk
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Ghazi Mustapha Kemal
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Ghazi Mustapha Kemal Pasha
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Ghazi Mustapha Kemal Ataturk
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Mustafa Kamal Attaturk
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Mustafa Kamal Ataturk
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Kemal Atatürk
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Kamal Ataturk
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Attaturk
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Ataturk
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Mustafa K. Atatürk
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K. Atatürk
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M. Kemal Atatürk
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M. Kemal Ataturk
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Ghazi Moustapha Kemal Pasha
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Gazi Mustafa Kemal
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Ali Rıza oğlu Mustafa
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For nearly five hundred years, these rules and theories of an Arab Shaikh and the interpretations of generations of lazy and good-for-nothing priests have decided the civil and criminal law of Turkey. They have decided the form of the Constitution, the details of the lives of each Turk, his food, his hours of rising and sleeping the shape of his clothes, the routine of the midwife who produced his children, what he learned in his schools, his customs, his thoughts-even his most intimate habits. Islam – this theology of an immoral Arab – is a dead thing. Possibly it might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for modern, progressive state. God’s revelation! There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weakling. No weaklings should rule.
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Even before accepting the religion of the Arabs, the Turks were a great nation. After accepting the religion of the Arabs, this religion, didn't effect to combine the Arabs, the Persians and Egyptians with the Turks to constitute a nation. (This religion) rather, loosened the national nexus of Turkish nation, got national excitement numb. This was very natural. Because the purpose of the religion founded by Muhammad, over all nations, was to drag to an including Arab national politics.
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