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...Turks regarded MacArthur as "the greatest hero," next to our beloved father and builder of the modern Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atat...
...success in Turkey, gratifying as it is, does not give much guidance on Western policy in the Arab countries and in Iran. Turkey had passed through a drastic process of modernization which in most of the Moslem world is still to come. But the U.S. cannot wait for Kemal Atat¨urks who are not in sight...
Turkey, predominantly an agricultural nation despite Atatürk's brave show of steel mills and modern factories, is still a long way from using its land's full strength, though 80% of Turkey's 20 million people live off the dry and parched land (there are only twelve cities of over 50,000 population...
Admission to NATO will mean completion of a task Kemal Atatürk set out upon 28 years ago this month: the westernization of Turkey. His original dream of converting Turkey from an Eastern empire to a Western nation is now, many Turks believe, a reality. NATO membership will be worn like the brimmed Western hat that replaced...
...Atatürk and his followers actually considered the lack of roads a defense weapon. Turkish defense thinking prior to 1947 was sometimes described as the "Gallipoli mind." Widely separate cadres of troops were assigned to defend mountain passes and strategic positions. They had their orders-plant the flag on the hilltop and stick until every man died. If there were no roads, the thinking ran, then the enemy would have a harder time moving than the defenders would have defending. The new military equipment and tactical conception the U.S. brought to Turkey in 1947 demanded that the Gallipoli approach...