What Turkey must do to become real Democracy

[Gavur]

Only if the true facts of the era can be honestly discussed and added to the Turkish historical curiculum,he was unfortunately employed by the CUP until they decided to turn on him.

Very good post Joseph. Coming back to Turkey after growing up in another country when I was a kid I pretty much found the blind obsession with M.K.A. pretty much Stalinist; even at that age. The statues, forced memorization of some of his speeches was very wierd and sometimes frustrating, maybe because I did not know Turkish back then.

But having read much about him, mostly from foreign sources I got to appreciate the man the way, I believe, many Turks are not able to but should be able to. He was not the perfect, ideal, holy, all true great man that classical Turkish education teaches you but a much greater historical figure with his rights and wrongs and accomplishments and failures. I think he deserves a much more humane approach instead of the shallow worship he has been getting all these years.

[Joseph]

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.09-international-affairs-a-land-apart-turkey-politics-christopher-frey/