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...wonderful historical dilemmas: Lenin or Stalin? Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping? The answers were closely reasoned and thoroughly researched. The editors also solicited the opinions of readers, who let us know what they thought by letter, E-mail and fax. Our Website time.com alone collected nearly 7 million votes. (Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, drew several million.) In the end the editors balanced popularity with legacy and influence with impact to produce a collection that both engages and surprises. And if there is someone you thought for sure should be included, stay tuned--he or she may appear...
...among many Muslim autocrats in this century to embrace a mission designed as a corrective to the West. Kemal Ataturk, the most daring of them, introduced Turkey, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, to Western-style secularism in order to toughen his society against Europe's imperial designs. In the 1950s, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, more intemperately, initiated a fierce campaign of Arab nationalism aimed at eradicating the vestiges of Western colonialism from the Arab world...
...Turkey's President Mustafa Kemal "Father of the Turks," dies...
Then beginning in late August, a new contender emerged: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. A maelstrom of electronic votes, augmented by hundreds of thousands of postcards, letters and faxes, urged us to name the founder of the Republic of Turkey as TIME's Person of the Century. As of last week, Ataturk's tally was closing in on 1.7 million, out of a total of 5 million votes cast. And before we consolidated his votes into the two most appropriate slots (Statesmen and Heroes), he was leading the field in all five categories...
Tania Vitvitsky, recently returned from planning visits to Sarajevo, is the project director, and Dr. Kemal Bakarsic, assistant professor of bibliography in the Department of Librarianship at the University of Sarajevo, will be the coordinator based in Bosnia-Herzegovina...