Ataturk Archive
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Rick Perry Camp Explains Suggestion That Turkey Is Led By ‘Islamic Terrorists’
Posted on January 17, 2012 | 1 CommentPerry: Turkey ruled by ‘Islamic terrorists’? By David Jackson, USA TODAY Updated 2h 50m ago CAPTION By David Goldman, AP We wonder if Turkey will be filing any protests with... -
Atatürk’s favorite hotel still doomed
Posted on November 10, 2011 | 1 CommentVERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU Once home to the most elegants ball of the times, Atatürk’s favorite Hotel, Tokatlıyan, is now facing an unknown future. Considered as a great piece of architecture, the... -
Robert Fisk: Great War secrets of the Ottoman Arabs
Posted on October 15, 2011 | No CommentsForgotten soldiers. We all know about Gallipoli; hopelessly conceived mess, dreamed up by Churchill to move the Great War from the glued trenches of France to a fast-moving invasion of... -
Some Turks ready to abolish law that protects memory of Ataturk
Posted on August 30, 2011 | No CommentsThomas Seibert ISTANBUL // Six decades after it came into force, a law protecting the memory of the republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk still has the power to rock careers,... -
Setting the record straight
Posted on August 27, 2011 | 1 CommentWritten by Patriot Staff August 19, 2011 As the grandson of Russell Boardman, I enjoyed reading Ms. Roscoe’s review of the premiere showing of Cape Cod over Istanbul [Aug. 5,... -
Ataturk’s vision for Turkey slowly diminishing
Posted on August 27, 2011 | No CommentsBy Austin Bay Even for a television talk show, it was an extraordinary claim. During his January 1, 2000, end-of-the-millennium broadcast, “McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin declared that his award... -
Atatürk will remain a towering figure among Turks
Posted on August 23, 2011 | 1 CommentNotwithstanding, there is little doubt that Atatürk will remain a towering historical figure among Turks. Reactionary forces that resist change and want to hold on to the past will not hold the Turkish nation hostage to their hatred and bigotry. -
When ‘Cape Cod’ flew to Istanbul
Posted on August 6, 2011 | 2 CommentsWritten by Lee Roscoe August 05, 2011 LEE ROSCOE PHOTO FAMILY PRIDE – Dorothy Polando and son David enjoy the reception for a new documentary about John Polando and Russell Boardman’s... -
ATATURK SOCIETIES OF USA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM STRONGLY OPPOSE
Posted on June 9, 2011 | No CommentsATATURK SOCIETIES OF USA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM STRONGLY OPPOSE THE TURKISH RULING PARTY’S DECLARED INTENTION TO CHANGE “TURKEY’S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES” PROTECTED BY THE CURRENT CONSTITUTION Turkey’s ruling Justice and... -
Turkey celebrates another May 19 with fascistic overtones
Posted on May 20, 2011 | 3 Comments19 May 2011, Thursday / E. BARIŞ ALTINTAŞ , İSTANBUL “One language, one flag, one motherland,” reads a choreographed formation of Kuleli military cadets who performed for May 19 Youth... -
This Spring won’t breed any more Turkeys
Posted on April 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe Times (UK), 5 April 2011, p. 1-19 Norman Stone * A slow, draconian process of modernisation and a hostile attitude to Islam is no model for the Arab world... -
Ataturk’s legacy gets second look
Posted on April 5, 2011 | 2 CommentsBy: Tom Ford ISTANBUL, Turkey — They’re hanging strings of tiny, pastel flags across some of the main streets of this ancient city of 16 million. Turkey’s 25 political parties are... -
Turkey: The growing power
Posted on March 31, 2011 | 3 CommentsGavin Hewitt In the era of awakenings, upheavals and revolutions: watch Turkey. It has become a hugely ambitious country, bristling with self-belief. In a turbulent Middle East it believes it... -
Libya: From Tripoli War to Struggle Against Gaddafi
Posted on March 5, 2011 | No CommentsThe outbreak of the riots in Libya just after Tunisia and Egypt (Libia is geographically between these two) makes evident that the riots in North Africa has caused domino effect.... -
Kemalism still has an important role to play in Turkey
Posted on February 10, 2011 | 1 CommentFinancial Times’dan bir okuyucu mektubunu bilginize sunuyorum…… Pulat Tacar ================================================================ Kemalism still has an important role to play in Turkey Published: February 9 2011 00:12 | Last updated: February 9... -
Turkey: The land a dictator turned into a democracy
Posted on January 29, 2011 | 3 CommentsMonday, Oct. 12, 1953 He who loves the rose should put tip with its thorns. —Old Turkish saying ONE day in 1853, Nicholas I, Czar of all the Russias, peered... -
Why Turkey will emerge as leader of the Muslim world
Posted on November 25, 2010 | No CommentsBy SONER CAGAPTAY The AKP is setting the stage for a total recalibration of Turkey’s global compass. Turkey is not thought of as the Muslim country par excellence, but it is... -
Two minutes of peace « Adventures in Ankara . . . there’s a new kid in town
Posted on November 11, 2010 | No CommentsThis morning I expereinced something miraculous, wonderous, beautiful, strange, and different. Today is the 72nd anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s death. He was the founding father of modern Turkey. At... -
Turkey-Pakistan Parallels…Or Not – Tim Ferguson – Oceans Away – Forbes
Posted on November 11, 2010 | No CommentsCould Turkey’s blossoming as an Islamic entrepreneurial society be a model for troubled Pakistan? Or have been? The thought is raised in a recent posting by Elmira Bayrasli of New... -
Turks might not wait
Posted on November 10, 2010 | No CommentsEric Ellis Turkey, with its strong economy and links to Asia, may not need to be part of the European Union. IS IT European? Asian? Both? Neither? It’s a millenniums-old...
