Ataturk Quotes

• Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

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  Bulent Ecevit

  Army   Ataturk   Staff  

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• The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.

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  Ahmet Ertegun

  Country   Islamic   Turkeys  

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.

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  Ahmet Ertegun

  Religious   Father   Cutting  

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

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  Ahmet Ertegun

  Powerful   Father   Men  

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.

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  Rush Limbaugh

  Islam   Trying   Ataturk  

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.

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  William J. Clinton

  Ataturk   Built  

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