"From Ataturk to Erdogan, reshaping Turkey
By Soner Cagaptay, Sunday, August 14, 6:29 PM
As the Ottoman Empire vanished after World War I, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk created a new Turkey in the mold of Europe. Controlling all levers of power, including the military, Ataturk implemented his vision by mandating a separation between religion, public policy and government, and by telling his compatriots to consider themselves intuitively Western."
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