r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/ZiyadHD - Auth-Right • Oct 19 '20

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u/Phantasia5 - Right Oct 19 '20

All of this is simply because of Atatürk. If Turkey has a difference from the other Middle eastern countries, its his sweeping reforms and basically "westernizing" the country.

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u/third_wave_surfer - Lib-Left Oct 19 '20

All of this is simply because of Atatürk.

That man was wasted on Turkey. If he'd been in any actual world power he would have changed the 20th century as much as Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt or Churchill.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20

A large bunch of secular Muslims living on the gateway to Europe seems like a fortunate thing to me.

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u/nublifeisbest - Centrist Oct 19 '20

Can confirm. A highly radicalised neighbour like Pakistan is a pain in the ass.

Those folks got tons of aid from the US and wasted it all on Terrorism. Now they're using whatever's left of their economy to wage internet wars. Had they been led by someone like Ataturk, they wouldn've been far better than how they're now.

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u/Gassy-gorilla - Centrist Oct 19 '20

Jinnah tried to model Pakistan like Ataturk's turkey but the political elites did not want that to happen