"Turkey, Ataturk, Islam, the West, and the East
By Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
January 20, 2008
The ongoing debate about the Islamic Veil in Turkey brings us back to the days when the current legislation was stipulated, and to the times of Kemal Ataturk who spearheaded Turkey´s modernization, liberalization, and democratization.
As Orhan Tarhan, an authoritative commentator with life experience spanning over more than nine (9) decades, recently stated in the article ´What Ataturk Was and What He Was Not´ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/47867), "The genius of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was to define the conditions of Europe´s superiority to other nations and to use these conditions as a target the Turkish society should reach to become survivable in the modern world". "
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