Main_Source wrote:and then he ordered the death and ethnic cleansing of millions of Armenians and hundreds of thousands of Greeks.
Yeah, nice guy.
MS / As Sadik also mentioned the Armenian tragedy(let's call it that for now till experts and historians work out exactly what it was) happened long before Ataturk came to power in 1923.From 1919 onwards he was the commander-in-chief of the forces trying to liberate Anatolia from the Allies.There are many versions of what happened between 1919 and 1923,and the Turkish version naturally does not show Ataturk in a negative light.Personally,I cannot believe that innocent Greeks or Armenians had not suffered during the War of Liberation as it is now known.My knowledge of the ''ethnic cleansing" is very limited to knowing that whole populations were exchanged under some agreement.Sadik might like to shed more light on this issue.