A Craze for Atatürk Gives New Cachet to Turkey’s Founding Father
Popularity of ‘M. Kemal’ highlights secularist revival, but Erdogan keeps legacy in check ahead of election
By David Gauthier-Villars
Feb. 22, 2019 2:30 p.m. ET
KARADENIZ EREGLI, Turkey—Hundreds of families, children in tow, lined up outside a bookstore in this industrial town on a recent Sunday, taking part in a publishing phenomenon: a 500-page best seller on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey.
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