Turkish Politics Quotes
Fortunately for Turkey and the world, a great Turkish leader, Ataturk, rose up and radically reformed the nation and transformed it to a European style, secular democracy which became the most successful Muslim nation in the world but was under pressure by Ismalists to revert and have more religious control. Ataturk ended the Turkey that TR and others were criticizing.
Turkey with the decline of the Ottoman Empire, had little experience in modern international politics—and no modern leaders until Ataturk came and modernized the nation. The Turks had allied themselves with Germany in WWI and in the aftermath came out as badly in the peace as they had in the war.
He was originally a big supporter of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his early political career. But he, like so many others, had stopped supporting Erdogan when he became authoritarian, paranoid and irrational on a number of occasions and began to jail anyone ho criticized him or associated with those who criticized him.
