Mustafa Kemal Atatürk has either been greatly exalted or there has been an attempt to denigrate him as much as possible.
Mustafa Kemal and his era belong to us, not to anyone else...
It is a phase of our history.
We can neither get anywhere by exalting him excessively, nor can we ignore the period started by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by calling it a "90-year interim period".
The National Struggle is our national struggle; not someone else's...
We are talking about an Ottoman Empire that was invaded by the Great Powers.
We are talking about the imposition of a Sevres Project that wanted to wipe out the Turks from Anatolia....
A pioneer was needed and that pioneer was Mustafa Kemal and started the National Struggle....
The Allied Powers that wanted to divide Turkey occupied Istanbul and made the Sultan unable to move and dictated what they wanted to the governments of Damat Ferit Pasha...
"Shepherd's fires" were lit all over the Ottoma Show More