"Turkey’s Hero, Behind the Bronze Veneer
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: November 12, 2008
ISTANBUL — After nearly a century of looking serious, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, has started to smile.
Ataturk — a war-hero-turned-statesman who defended Turkey during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire — is the subject of what is perhaps the world’s longest personality cult."
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