Yeah, I think I will pass...it will just piss me off

İĞRENİYORUM BU TARTIŞMADAN!!!! Siz kimsiniz, başkaları hakkında öyle konuşuyorsunuz ki! Vallahi, Türk olmak bu ise, Türk olmak hep Atatürk'ü sevmekse, milliyetçi olmaksa, ırkçılıksa, ÖYLEYSE ne mustuz Türküm diyene!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is my suggestion: don't take people too seriously.

For those who are interested, everything Ataturk did is very comprehensively documented. You are welcome to make your own evaluation after doing your own reading.

It is very understandable that people defending completely different causes regard Ataturk as their leader. Who wouldn't want to have such an accomplished leader after all. Similarly, all the major football clubs in Turkey fervently and somewhat ridiculously claim that he supported their team.

Ataturk was born in 1881 and died in 1938, therefore his political ideas must be considered with that time frame in mind. Many historians agree his thoughts were extremely innovative and constructive. In Turkey, where everyone else had lost all their hopes for resurrection, he created a new state, abolished sultanate whereas he was expected to become the next sultan himself.

At a time when he had ultimate authority, he willingly paved the path for his citizens to form new political parties and defend their own political causes. He gave suffrage to women, had his step daughter educated as a combat pilot. That was a symbolic move meant to prove that women could achieve any task. He wanted to destroy the stereotypes about women of the day. He also asked women not to wear veils anymore and encouraged them to take part in all spheres of daily life. Women enjoyed an unprecedented period of freedom and equality in his time and he did all those things in a time frame between 1923-1938.

Many of his revolutions were erroded by subsequent governments.

How badly can you think of a man who freed your country from the occupation of English, French, Italian, Greek, Australian, New Zealender, Indian troops. Who never lost a battle and who ruled the country like magic for 15 years.
We owe a great part of our national identity to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

do staunch muslims in turkey support him?