What was the nature of Mustapha Kemal's Turkish nation and was the code of ethnic cleansing key to its formation?
Title: What was the nature of Mustapha Kemal's Turkish nation and was the code of ethnic cleansing key to its formation?
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What was the nature of Mustapha Kemal's Turkish nation and was the code of ethnic cleansing key to its formation?
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 1648 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Mustapha Kemal otherwise known as 'Ataturk', which in Turkish means "The Father of All Turks", is the father of modernity in Turkey. During his reign over Turkey he achieved great advances for the 'primitive' Turkish nation although he achieved these important steps towards the West due to the acts of the ethnic cleansing of Turkey resulting in the death marches which wiped out Greeks, Assyrians and to the greatest extent of all the Armenians. The …showed first 75 words of 1648 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1648 total…of Ataturk's and the Young Turks ideologies of a Turkey where all the people are united.
In conclusion, Mustapha Kemal's Turkish nation was created as a basis for modernist and reformist ideologies where the process of shifting towards eventual Western cultural identities at the expense of Islamic and Arabian identities was the eventual goal. He achieved this goal at the expense of the Christian ethnic groups who had been original inhabitants for thousands of years.