"Ottoman Turkey and the troubled legacy of Kemal Ataturk
BY MATEIN KHALID
22 September 2005
HIS memory still haunts the Dolma Bache Palace in Istanbul where he died, the magnificent mausoleum in Ankara where he is buried. His portraits and busts are prominent in Turkish embassies worldwide. The founder of the first secular state in Islamic history is a hero to reformers and anathema to mullahs from the Maghreb to Pakistan."
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