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.

[H. Ross Peron]

A great man, whose legacy the current Turkish government is doing the best to destroy by turning back to the black night of theocratic Oriental despotism of the Ottomans.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

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.

[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.

[Zioneer]

Had his flaws, but overall FF for his time. His modern day adherents on the other hand... not so much. Of course, Mr. Erdogan and his followers aren't that great either.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Probably the greatest leader Turkey has had.  I wish there were more like him in the region.

[BaconBacon96]

A man I hold in high esteem.

[ingemann]

I don't like him, he was a awful person, when that's said it wasn't like Turkey had better alternatives so FF.

[Lief 🗽]

One of the greats.

[TDAS04]

FF.

[freefair]

Huge FF, though, his socialist orientation doesn't endear me to him, & the nature of his successor parties makes the AKP look electable. Turkey needs a centre-right liberal party