Ataturk among world dictators wearing mustache

“Foreign Policy” magazine published a list of dictators wearing mustache. The founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Ataturk was also included in the list.  

“The soaring mustache Ataturk wore as a young army captain was popular in the Ottoman era, modeled on the grooming style of Kaiser Wilhelm II, which reflected the influence of German culture on the Turkish intelligentsia of the period. But by the time Ataturk took office as the autocratic ruler of the new Republic of Turkey in 1923, his mustache had been pared back to a conservative bristle; as he guided Turkey toward economic and political liberalization in the years that followed he shaved it off entirely, as a symbolic example of Turkey leaving behind its Ottoman past in favor of a modern future,” the magazine reads.

Turkish mass media considered the publication an insult, as Hitler was also included in the list.

Source: here

Pfff... he was a dictator, he wore a mustache. That means he fits in the list. That the mass media is upset is just silly. The piece about him is nice, matching is mustache style with the stage he was in in his political life

Read it here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/30/stiff_upper_lip

He shaved his moustache in the last ten-fifteen years of his life.

This seems a good opportunity to mention something that I noticed about Ataturk. I think he had film star quality looks and many of his photos (post moustache) remind me of Laurence Olivier.  He strikes me as a very charismatic figure.

I cannot see Atatürk´s picture. I guess it´s not a public picture.

I can see the pictures. Yes, the right picture looks movie-star like. I´m sure he was charismatic, otherwise he wouldn´t have come so far. You can be the person with the best ideas in the world, but you always have to convince others as well that your ideas (and you yourself) are great.

I cannot see the picture as well, says it is a blocked page...

Hope this helps:

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/3509/ataturk1portre4ii.jpg

Nope!

I saw that URL from your first post and had tried it! Problem is you need to be a registered user to see it. It´s not a public picture.

 But I´m not registered, and I can see it. Perhaps a country-block or something?

I´m not a registered user either.  I googled Ataturk then went to images and chose one that looked most like a Laurence Olivier pose.