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...alone. To give Egypt enduring government, the army needed popular support. Iran's mob, the power behind Mossadegh, needed even more urgently the support of the Iranian army. To fuse and discipline army and mob was a task for no one less than another Kemal Ata-türk, whose strong rule made Turkey modern and democratic in one generation. No such towering figure has yet appeared in Egypt or Iran...
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...
...Reformer's Progress. Turkey today is largely the creation of the "Young Turk" movement, whose Kemal Atatürk made a modern nation out of the ancient "sick man of Europe." Midhat was a "Young Turk"-in spirit at least-before Atatürk was ever heard of. He was born in 1822, the son of a Constantinople judge. At 29, he was made General Secretary of the State Council of well-meaning but pusillanimous Sultan Abdul Mejid. A sternly upright and able young man with compassionate and liberal convictions, Midhat was soon serving as a trouble-shooter...