“Islamists and a great many right-wing conservatives in Turkey despise both Atatürk and İnönü for putting an end to the Ottoman caliphate and bringing a secular order to the Turkish Republic, separating religious affairs from the state. It is true that some of their implementations during one-party rule were far from democratic by today’s standards. But the world of the 1920s and 30s was the world of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Chamberlain and Roosevelt.”
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“Islamists and a great many right-wing conservatives in Turkey despise both Atatürk and İnönü for putting an end to the Ottoman caliphate and bringing a secular order to the Turkish Republic, separating religious affairs from the state. It is true that some of their implementations during one-party rule were far from democratic by today’s standards. But the world of the 1920s and 30s was the world of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Chamberlain and Roosevelt.”