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Submitted by cuneyt (Italy), Nov 14, 2012 at 13:28

The AKP government also reversed Atatürk's legacy of looking to the West for inspiration and leadership.

Ataturk looked at the west for leadership? He kicked british behinds all his life. Come on now!

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	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
1	Saving Turkey -- Saving Western Civilization? [554 words]	GWK	Mar 14, 2013 13:43	204321
1	I got news about Turkey for you, Dr Pipes [104 words]	Prashant	Dec 19, 2012 02:25	201580
7	Turkish hagiography and its Western believers and parrots [779 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Ianus	Nov 21, 2012 15:28	200842
3	Kind of replying, not on behalf of Ianus, i wouldn't dare:) [1046 words]	Alexandros	Nov 23, 2012 05:33	200842
3	The Islamic imperialism and Turkey [1536 words]	Alexandros	Nov 24, 2012 07:24	200842
	Get the facts right [281 words]	Mozere	Nov 27, 2012 06:23	200842
1	Some questions because you might be right.... [518 words]	Alexandros	Nov 28, 2012 04:53	200842
	facts not prejudices [321 words]	Mozere	Nov 29, 2012 12:35	200842
2	Basically you deny [990 words]	Alexandros	Nov 30, 2012 05:50	200842
	Historical errors [21 words]	Heraclitus	Nov 30, 2012 17:35	200842
	"Ataturk's leagcy" as cherry-picking [112 words]	Ianus	Dec 20, 2012 08:00	200842
2	Kemalists against the Jews vs. Islamists against the Jews [143 words]	Ianus	Dec 20, 2012 08:26	200842
4	"Ataturk's leagcy" as cherry-picking (1936 words , not 112) [1954 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Ianus	Dec 21, 2012 01:51	200842
3	Historical errors or making a virtue of necessity? [651 words]	Ianus	Dec 21, 2012 17:56	200842
	Stalinesque Disinformation [700 words]	Mozere	Dec 22, 2012 05:37	200842
	turkey imperialism [10 words]	yasmeen	Mar 23, 2014 03:59	200842
	From it's designer [87 words]	Alexandros	Mar 24, 2014 05:55	200842
5	A general opinion for Turkish leaders [502 words]	Alexandros	Nov 18, 2012 14:58	200769
2	Idealism morphing into cynical manupulations of ignorant masses [226 words]	Mozere	Nov 15, 2012 11:07	200646
1	Too much optimism? [16 words]	Heraclitus	Nov 30, 2012 18:07	200646
2	Turkish warlords as bourgeois or bureaucrats ? [998 words]	Ianus	Dec 22, 2012 17:12	200646
	what? [33 words]	cuneyt	Nov 14, 2012 13:28	200593
4	Smoke and mirrors of Kemalism [425 words]	Ianus	Nov 15, 2012 11:31	200593
	The AKP is pro western and they have not much choice in the matter. [115 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Mozere	Nov 14, 2012 10:40	200579
	Turkey and Ezekiel: an interesting viewpoint [96 words]	Ugri	Nov 14, 2012 02:37	200569
	Gog, Magog, Meshech, and Tubal [45 words]	Kepha Hor	Dec 16, 2012 20:22	200569
	Turkey [35 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Fred Schwartz	Nov 14, 2012 00:01	200566
2	A Muslim... [17 words]	Mark	Nov 13, 2012 18:28	200543
10	Turkey Regressing to Ottoman days [57 words]	Michael Hanni Morcos	Nov 13, 2012 16:55	200531
2	does anyone else see the "proto-dictatorial mentality" parallel? [77 words]	Mark	Nov 13, 2012 16:48	200528
	Turkey's Islamist Turn, 10 Years Later [156 words]	Judith	Nov 13, 2012 16:34	200526
	Excellent article [29 words]	Reyhan Ilhan	Nov 13, 2012 13:05	200517
1	The other way around ... [53 words]	Mihai-Robert Soran	Nov 13, 2012 12:32	200516
5	Give'em enough rope..... [19 words]	ates gurbuz	Nov 13, 2012 12:14	200515
1	Two worlds [139 words]	Halikarnas	Nov 14, 2012 14:16	200515
5	"Kemalism that philosophy of an immoral warlord and drunkard is a decaying corpse that is poisoning all of our life" [245 words]	Ianus	Nov 15, 2012 12:21	200515