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Article: Books: What Ataturk did to Turkey The founding father's revolution is not over yet, says Noel Malcolm
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- June 22, 1997
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Turkey Unveiled:
Ataturk and After
by Nicole and Hugh Pope
John Murray, pounds 25, 373 pp
MUSTAFA KEMAL, later known as Ataturk, was born in 1881. Vladimir
Ulyanov, later known as Lenin, was born in 1870. Lenin came to
power in 1917 by taking advantage of the breakdown of his country
during a war. Six years later Ataturk came to power, rather more
honourably, by turning his country round from a near-total
breakdown and winning a military victory (against an invading Greek
army). Ataturk kicked out the Sultan's family, giving them one-way
passports and pounds 2,000 each. Lenin had the Tsar's family
butchered.
On almost every point of comparison, Ataturk emerges as the
personal and moral ...