"Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography
by Austin Bay
August 16, 2011
Even for a television talk show, it was an extraordinary claim.
During his January 1, 2000, end-of-the-millennium broadcast, 'McLaughlin Group' host John McLaughlin declared that his award for 'the Person of the Full Millennium' went to the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a 'Muslim visionary who ... abolished the Ottoman sultanate ... emancipated women ... the only leader in history to successfully turn a Muslim nation into a Western parliamentary democracy and secular state."
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