As religion creeps back into Turkish government, so it does in U.S.
JUNE 4, 2019 BY RICK SNEDEKER
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The headline in a recent Daylight Atheism blog post — “Ataturk Triumphed Over Religion” — is, unfortunately, premature.
Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, left, greets the Shah of Persia Reza Pahlavi in Ankara, 1934. (Levan Ramishvili, Flikr, Public Domain)
It refers to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the strongman founder and first president of Turkey’s modern secularly structured republican government and society, who did indeed transform that once-theocratic Muslim state into a nontheistic republic during his rule in 1923-38.
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