"VIEW: Updating Ataturk’s legacy —Ahmad Faruqui
When Ataturk sought to Europeanise Turkey by making the military the guardian of its national identity, it is unlikely that he intended that the military would play this role indefinitely. In its annual progress report, the European Commission has granted the status of a market economy to Turkey but noted that the political role of the military needs to be curtailed
Every year, Turkey observes the death anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on November 10 with a nationwide salute at 9:05 am, the time of his death in 1938. The veneration of Ataturk, whose image is captured throughout the country in statues and photographs, is pandemic. "
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