With the previous post on the topic, I ended the period of Turkey's formation as a "modern" country, a period where the people was ordered to look to the European West instead of Mecca. I haven't mentioned the fact that Iran's Shah Reza Pahlavi I, was a great admirer of Atatürk, wanting to do the same, in Iran. More to know of The expat Shah's father, is his admiration for another "great" man of the modern history. When you wish for power and you got it, you may think that everything is destined to serve you and your will. You may think yourself a sort of a god, a prophet or a saint. And I remember the above picture inspiring me for the whole chain of posts about Turkish State Affairs, history, politics and all that. It was tiring, exhausting, as I worked all out, less subjectively to unintentionally destroy myths about Turks and Turkishness. There is still a punishment in their Constitution for any remark regarding a different vision, any deviation from the official line about their founding Father, the Turkish Republic of the Northern Cyprus, the Kurdish reprimands, sympathy for the PKK, and many many more. What can I say more is that there is no Turk who can sympathize with the "terrorist" organization, of whom ALL the Kurds were members, ALL of them … [Read more...]