Türkiye Ataturk Biography

It was supposed to become Western, modern, secular and peaceful. The policy of Turkey under Erdogan largely contradicts the reforms of the "forefather of the Turks". Since the beginning of October, many in Turkey asked how the Islamic-conservative government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will celebrate the flight from the date of founding of the republic on October 29.

After all, until recently, there was not even an official program on the agenda. They say that foreign diplomats asked each other if anyone received an invitation. Only on October 20, the Presidential Department of Communications announced that a number of events would be held in which, however, the main emphasis will be placed on the achievements of the Erdogan era. In this, secular Turks see another confirmation of their fears that the current head of state is trying to blur the heritage of the founding father - Ataturka - and take his place, creating the cult of Erdogan and taking several more steps on the way to turn Turkey into an Islamic country.

Erdogan wants to become a new Ataturk? Erdogan has been in power in Turkey for more than 20 years. Now he wants to go down in history as a statesman who headed the republic in the second century from the day of its founding. Beat Orange Beate Apelt, the head of the Turkish department of the Friedrich Nauman Foundation for Freedom, on the eve of the anniversary of the republic, sees many symbolic details, the purpose of which is to put an Erdogan on a par with a chieftier.

Here is the expression "eyelids of Turkey", and portraits of two leaders of the same size posted at various events. This symbolism is designed to say that Ataturk is the initiator, and Erdogan is the final project of the Great Age, says Arange. Two great leaders? In addition, many holiday events include religious elements. According to the orange, this is "of course, not in the spirit of Ataturka." As you know, the founding father of the Turkish Republic introduced a clear separation of the state and religion.

Adhering to the principle of secularism, he also abolished religious brotherhoods and caliphate, so Islamists still have hostility to him. Erdogan has been supporting such religious groups since his coming to power, providing them with numerous privileges. He never pronounces the full name of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. For him, he is always a "veteran of Mustafa Kemal." After all, "Ataturk" means the "forefather of the Turks".

Ataturk liberal personal life, his relationship with women and the use of alcohol also cause contempt in the circles of the ruling party. Türkiye Ataturk is Erdogan's terrible dream? Ataturk, the founder of the current Turkish state, dreamed of the Western, modern and secular republic. For several years, he carried out many reforms. He replaced the Arab alphabet with Latin, adopted Western legal codes, introduced suffrage for women.

Ataturk even adopted a law on hats, which orders the Turks to say goodbye to the Ottoman religious headdresses, such as Feske or Turban, and dress in a modern way, as in London, Berlin and Paris. Another long -term goal of Ataturk was the formation of a Turkish nation from the ruins of the multinational Ottoman Empire. This was possible only to a limited degree. In the country, conflicts are still continuing with representatives of a number of national minorities, including Armenians, Alevites and Kurds.

Only 40 thousand people died in an armed conflict with the Labor Party of Kurdistan from the Labor Party of Kurdistan.

Demonstration against violence against women. In the then situation - after the lost World War I, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the exhausting liberation war against the victorious powers - ataturk and his followers had only one goal: to save the remaining state education from complete decline and create a strong republic that could withstand any attacks from the inside and from the outside.

According to him, over the past years, the Turkish state has turned into a strong regional power, the existence of which is not questioned or threatened from outside. Thanks to membership in NATO and other alliances, the country has become an integral part of the international political system. This is due to the geostrategic position of the NATO member country between the Black and Mediterranean Seas, which, moreover, controls the Bosphorus and Dardanella straits.

The central position of Turkey between the EU, Russia and the extremely problematic neighborhood in the southeast, where Turkey has a border with Syria, Iraq and Iran, is equally important. A close -knit Turkish nation? In her opinion, Erdogan may well play a constructive role as he did in the case of a "grain transaction" for Ukraine. At the same time, the Turkish president is trying to extract from each such case the maximum benefit for himself and his country.

Even in the summer, Erdogan agreed not to prevent Sweden to enter the alliance if the European Union resumes negotiations with Ankara on joining the EU. The foreign policy of Turkey is becoming increasingly aggressive after the founding of the Turkish Republic, ataturk, began to pursue a peaceful foreign policy.According to political scientist Chevik, his goal was to protect a very young republic from international crises.

Türkiye remained true to this course - with the exception of the conflict around the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus in the middle of the X. In the first years of his reign, Erdogan also avoided conflicts in foreign policy. Only during the revolutionary movements of the so -called "Arab spring" did he go to confrontation with the Arab world and took the side of the rebels.

But even then his foreign policy was peaceful. However, in recent years, an aggressive tone has prevailed in Turkish policy against the background of the country's militarization. The reason is that the “soft power” of Ankara in recent years is becoming less influential, therefore, the only means of achieving its goals, Erdogan sees the increase in military power. Turkish air attacks in the north of Iraq and Syria became the subject of criticism from the international community.

The armament of jihadist groups in Syria and the sending of mercenaries to Libya and Nagorno -Karabakh also caused the discontent of the West.