Showing posts with label Kemal Ataturk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kemal Ataturk. Show all posts

The End of the Kemalist Affair

August 1, 2011

When was the last time a conservative NATO army pushed out its highest-ranking officers?
By Christopher Hitchens


"To read of the stunning news, of the almost-overnight liquidation of the Ataturkist or secularist military caste, and to try to do so from the standpoint of a seriously secular Turk, is to have a small share in the sense of acute national vertigo that must have accompanied the proclamation of a new system in the second two decades of the 20th century."
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Christopher reads from Hitch-22: A Memoir