Kemal Ataturk

ANKARA: Dreaming Of A Pure Nation-State

DREAMING OF A PURE NATION-STATE www.worldbulletin.net http://www.worldbulletin.net/author_article_detail.php?id=1881 Nov 17 2008 Turkey With statements he made during the Nov. 10 ceremonies held in memory of Mustafa Kemal...

Dalkıran to develop short film into feature

Filmmaker Biray Dalkıran will develop his 2008 short film “Son Balo: Vals ve Zeybek” (The Last Ball: Waltz and Zeybek) into a feature-length movie, Turkish movie Web site sadibey.com reported. The seven-minute short film...

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Dreaming of a pure nation-state

With statements he made during the Nov. 10 ceremonies held in memory of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Brussels, where he was attending an EU defense ministers’ troika meeting, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül became the top item...

ADD faces probe over Atatürk-Lenin banner

A public prosecutor's office in İstanbul has reportedly launched a probe into the Atatürkist Thought Association (ADD) over its use of a banner showing Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, side by side...

Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the founder of the republic and our first president. Taking Atatürk as a reference point at a time when our country's EU membership is being discussed is ridiculous, but so is insulting and...

Why Atatürk Became a God

Originally published in Hürriyet Daily News] In recent years, the more moderate and reasonable Kemalists are asking themselves a curious question: How in the world has Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey’s founder, who devoted...

The Rise and Fall of the Arab Middle Class in the Middle East

Monthly Review, VA Nov 15 2008 The Rise and Fall of the Arab Middle Class in the Middle East: Between Modernization, Nationalism, and Revolution by Eyal Zisser Keith David Watenpaugh. Among the dignitaries who stayed at the...

ANKARA: Wilson backs press freedom

Hürriyet, Turkey Nov 15 2008 Wilson backs press freedom ANKARA - The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Turkey said Friday that freedom of press was very important for a democracy. Ross Wilson hosted diplomacy correspondents at his...

Film Controversy: Turkey Shocked by Chain Smoking, Raki-Swilling Atatürk

Kemal Atatürk: a drunkard and bon vivant? To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of the founder of modern Turkey, a film reveals some of the more profane traits of the national hero -- enraging devout Kemalists and sparking...

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