Ankara’s political fault line
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Yusuf Kanlı - yusuf.kanli@hurriyet.com.tr
Turkey was commemorating yesterday its founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the 73rd anniversary of his passing away.
The foremost “Kemalist” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was speaking at a special ceremony at the Atatürk History Institute, picking quotes from the founding father of the republic that best suit his political agenda. At the same meeting President Abdullah Gül was drawing an almost totally different image of Atatürk; a leader who devoted his life to the independence of the country and creation on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire a republic based on the principle of “There is no supreme power than the will of the nation.”
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