Showing posts with label Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Show all posts
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Zu den Pflichtveranstaltungen hoher Staatsgäste in der Türkei gehört es, das Mausoleum des Republikgründers zu besuchen: Mustafa Kemal Pascha, genannt Atatürk. Beeindruckend ist Anıtkabir, das Denkmal, rund um die Uhr von Soldaten bewacht. Wachwechsel im Stechschritt, ein Statement in Stein, ewige Ruhe im 42 Tonnen schweren Sarkophag.
"Vater der Türken" heißt Atatürk übersetzt. Als solcher begreift sich der Soldat, Revolutionär, Visionär und Politiker wohl, als er sein Land aus den Trümmern des Osmanischen Reiches erhebt und ihm ab der Proklamation der Republik am 29. Oktober 1923 einen neuen, seinen Stempel aufdrückt. Der Weg des Mustafa Kemal Pascha zu Atatürk aber ist heftig, kontrovers und dauert bis zum Jahr 1934. Erst in dem Jahr verleiht ihm die Große Nationalversammlung den Ehrentitel, den niemand sonst je tragen darf und wird.
Um zu begreifen, welchen elementaren kulturpolitischen Wandel Kemal Mustafa Pascha seinem Land verordnet, muss man die Figur des Mannes studieren, der am 19. Mai 1881 unter dem Namen Mustafa in Saloniki (heute: Thessaloniki, Griechenland) als Sohn des Holzhändlers und ehemaligen Zoll-Leutnants Ali Riza sowie dessen Frau Zübeyde Hanim in einfachen Verhältnissen geboren wird. Kemal heißt auf Arabisch Vollendung » | Von Dietrich Alexander | Montag, 17. Juni 2013
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Among the tents, snoozing youth and pleasant shady trees of Istanbul's Gezi Park there are portraits of one man in a European suit. Wherever you look Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – founder of the Turkish Republic – gazes sternly at you. Photos of the first president hang from branches, have been affixed to tea stalls, and even encircle a giant banner showing Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dressed as Hitler.
"We really love Ataturk. He changed our state. He made it into a modern republic," explained Murat Bakirdoven, a 24-year-old biology student who has been camping in the park for a week. Someone had stuck another photo of Ataturk – this time in a lounge suit, sitting on a leather chair, cigarette in hand – on a nearby tree. Bakirdoven added: "Erdogan wants us to forget him. Instead we are trying to create an Ataturk renaissance."
For the protesters who have taken part in Turkey's anti-government demonstrations, Ataturk is a hero. Dead for 75 years, he has become the reborn symbol of this student-driven anti-Erdogan movement. (The other motif is a penguin – a reference to the state media, which failed to report on the uprising for several days; one channel, CNN Turk, instead screened a nature documentary on Antarctica).
The symbolism goes to the heart of what this unprecedented uprising is about: Turkey's modern identity. At issue is whether Turkey should be the progressive, secular European nation-state that Ataturk originally envisaged and shaped from the ruins of the Ottoman empire, or a more explicitly religious country, a sort of Muslim version of Christian democracy. The protesters want the former; Erdogan, and his ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development party (AKP), it appears, the latter. » | Luke Harding Istanbul | Saturday, June 08, 2013
Monday, October 29, 2012
Friday, April 30, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Turkey is preparing to hold a referendum next month on key constitutional changes that will grant its Islamist prime minister unrivalled power in a country traditionally dominated by the military.
Parliament finished a debate Thursday on the constitutional package, which marks the culmination of a seven year drive by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. the prime minister, to make the democratically elected government Turkey's most powerful institution.
Mr Erdogan used his AK Party's majority to pass a set of 27 amendments over the opposition of the country's minority parties. Antagonism between the factions escalated during the debate and three politicians, including the Trade Minister and a Kurdish leader, suffered facial injuries in attacks.
President Abdullah Gul is expected to trigger the referendum within two weeks.
Analysts said that the era of untrammelled military power and extensive interference in the political system by the judiciary would be consigned to the past by the vote. >>> Damien McElroy in Istanbul | Thursday, April 29, 2010
Saturday, April 18, 2009
NZZ Online: Mit einem Marsch zum Mausoleum von Mustafa Kemal Atatürk haben tausende Menschen in Ankara gegen die Festnahme von säkular orientierten Regierungskritikern protestiert.
Die Demonstranten, überwiegend Studenten und Akademiker, schwenkten türkische Flaggen und skandierten: «Die Türkei ist säkular und wird es bleiben.» Dabei beriefen sie sich auf Atatürk, der 1923 den modernen türkischen Staat mit ausdrücklich weltlicher Ausrichtung gründete. An der Kundgebung nahmen mehr als 5000 Menschen teil. >>> ap | Samstag, 18. April 2009
Monday, December 01, 2008
VOICE OF AMERICA: Turks treat Ataturk, the founder of their republic, with great reverence. So when the release of a documentary divulging details of his personal life was released, a furor errupted. As Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul the documentary on his life, called Mustafa paints Ataturk as a hard-living, hard-drinking, melancholy man who felt increasingly detached from the country he created.
The documentary Mustafa's catchy soundtrack by Goran Bregovic is reverberating across Turkey, as is the subject of the film.
Mustafa is the first Turkish film that takes a close look at the private side of the man who was the architect of modern Turkish society. For many, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk has an almost iconic status. But the film's director, Can Dundar, says he is seeking to portray the man behind the legend.
"While we are accustomed to an image of Ataturk with his loud voice and strong statements, one gets surprised to see a Mustafa who noted down his own adolescence worries," Dundar said. "We also revealed very intimate information from unseen letters, about himself. This film reveals the man that disappeared under all big and cliché words about him."
The film explores Ataturk's tough childhood and his difficult early life. But among the films most striking portrayals is Ataturk as a heavy-drinking, chain-smoking womanizer, who loved to party and dance. >>> By Dorian Jones, Istanbul | December 1, 2008
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS: ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's deputy prime minister defended the ruling party in the country's top court Thursday against charges that it is steering the country toward Islamic rule.
The chief prosecutor is demanding the Islamic-rooted party be disbanded for anti-secular activity and that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and 70 other party members be barred from joining a political party for five years.
The court will deliver a verdict in the coming months. Some observers say a decision to disband the party could throw the country into political and economic instability.
The case is being heard as police rounded up two retired senior generals and some of the government's fiercest critics as part of a widening, year long investigation into allegations of a coup plot against the Islamic-leaning government by secularists.
The court case and the arrests have heightened tensions in Turkey. Erdogan's party is locked in a power struggle with secular groups supported by the military and other state institutions, including the judiciary. Turkish Party Rejects Anti-Secularism Charges >>> | July 3, 2008
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Monday, January 28, 2008
BBC: A Turkish court has handed down a 15-month suspended jail term to an academic found guilty of insulting the state's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Professor Atilla Yayla said the trial highlighted the limits on free speech and academic debate in Turkey.
His crime was to suggest in academic discussion that the early Turkish republic was not as progressive as portrayed in official books.
His lawyers say they will lodge an immediate appeal.
Professor Yayla told the BBC he was prepared to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary.
"I want to emphasise again and again that Turkey's most pressing problem is freedom of expression," he said. Academic sentenced over Ataturk >>> By Sarah Rainsford
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