Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to secure a place alongside Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the pantheon of great and transformative Turkish leaders, but critics accuse him of undermining ...

Whenever Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held a rally in the campaign for a new presidential system, a picture of a smartly-dressed man with a piercing gaze hangs next to his own giant ...

Türkiye’s Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy on Sunday inaugurated the restored Ataturk House in Thessaloniki, a Greek port city on the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, saying that paying ...

MEE's Turkey bureau chief Ragip Soylu reflects on his family's personal history with the founding of the Turkish Republic and Kemalist secularism Two women stand in front of the portraits of Turkish ...

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AMONG the nation-builders of the past century, Kemal Ataturk stands out. Those hopeful creations, Masaryk's Czechoslovakia and Tito's Yugoslavia are gone. Sukarno in Indonesia, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings circa 1925: Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk (1881 - 1938), born Mustafa Kemal ...