In 1981, the centennial of Atatürk's birth, the memory of Atatürk was honored by the United Nations and UNESCO, which declared it The Atatürk Year in the World and adopted the Resolution on the Atatürk Centennial. The Atatürk Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand (which also serves as a memorial to the ANZAC troops who died at Gallipoli); the Atatürk Memorial in the place of honour on ANZAC drive in Canberra, Australia; the Atatürk Forest in Israel; and the Atatürk Square in Rome, Italy, are only a few examples. He has roads named after him in several countries, like the Kemal Atatürk Marg in New Delhi, India, Kemal Atatürk Avenue in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Atatürk Avenue in the heart of Islamabad in Pakistan, the Atatürk Road in the southern city of province of Sind of Pakistan called Larkana where Atatürk visited back in 1923, and Mustafá Kemal Atatürk street in the Naco district of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His statues have been erected in numerous parks, streets and squares of many different countries in the world. The famous Madame Tussauds Museum in London has a wax statue of Atatürk. The entrance to Princess Royal Harbour in Albany, Western Australia is named Atatürk Channel. Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States; who earlier visited his tomb and praised him, also expressed his view regarding Atatürk's legacy at his speech towards "the Muslim world" by stating Atatürk's "greatest legacy is Turkey's strong and secular democracy, and that is the work that this assembly carries on today."[113][114]
Sotos wrote:This is the idol of all Turks. One of the biggest murderers the world has ever seen!
Nikitas wrote:Strong secular democracy with dozens of new mosques goin up in northern Cyprus, and the ergenekon trial going on in Turkey where a whole bunch of Kemalists are accused of plotting to establish a dictatorship. Kenan Evren was also a Kemalist, as were all the rest of the Turkish dictators.
A strong democracy where the national security council, composed of top military men, tell the elected civilians what is what.
Strong democracy is one where the civilians appoint the military and can also fire them with no repercussions. Turkey will have a long way to go before it can get to that point. IF it ever does.
Sotos wrote:Democracy was invented by Greeks so you can not teach as. Your field of expertise is genocides. This is why the best known Turk and your idol is a megamurderer.
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