Opinion of Mustafa Kemal

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

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Plenty of arguments for both (I half-considered making this a multiple options poll ), but his defense of Turkish independence after WWI and radical secular reforms make me vote for the former option. Also good to note his strident rejection of the Young Turk faction which carried out the Armenian Genocide, something which modern Turkey has sought to erase about him.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The man himself leans FF, despite a few nasty and elitist tendencies (people forget, with all his 'western sensibilities' he still was a dictator).

His modern day adherents though are terrible, and Kemalism nowadays is a bankrupt and overly flogged dead horse of an idealogy.

Yes, the modern Turkish two-party system is especially awful.