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Actually I have as well never said everything Attatürk did was wrong. So maybe I was really reading something into your comments, but you used great Attatürk, which for me is a strong sign of support and an attribute, which I have never used in connection with any politician.

On the other issues, well, on some I agree on others I disagree, but I don't think its worth debating here any more.

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by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Wed Feb 20th, 2008 at 10:58:54 AM EST
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I rarely use 'great' to describe a politician, so I was somewhat puzzled at this. 'Great Atatürk,' it turns out, wasn't my choice of words. That was from the original diary, which I'm not the author of. I've done a text search of this thread and it doesn't appear anywhere in my comments.

For the record, I would personally I rank Atatürk somewhere in the vicinity of Churchill as greatness goes. Like Churchill, he did a lot of things that were arguably necessary, but like Churchill he used methods that I often find it hard or impossible to condone, or which were unduly harsh compared to the nature and severity of the problems he faced.

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Feb 20th, 2008 at 01:48:46 PM EST
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