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in loving memory of Atatürk - a heros story
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, c. 1916 ©
Atatürk was a Turkish nationalist leader and founder and first president of the republic of Turkey.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. His father was a minor official and later a timber merchant. When Atatürk was 12, he was sent to military school and then to the military academy in Istanbul, graduating in 1905.
In 1911, he served against the Italians in Libya and then in the Balkan Wars (1912 - 1913). He made his military reputation repelling the Allied invasion at the Dardanelles in 1915.
In May 1919, Atatürk began a nationalist revolution in Anatolia, organising resistance to the peace settlement imposed on Turkey by the victorious Allies. This was particularly focused on resisting Greek attempts to seize Smyrna and its hinterland. Victory over the Greeks enabled him to secure revision of the peace settlement in the Treaty of Lausanne.
In 1921, Atatürk established a provisional government in Ankara. The following year the Ottoman Sultanate was formally abolished and, in 1923, Turkey became a secular republic with Atatürk as its president. He established a single party regime that lasted almost without interruption until 1945.
He launched a programme of revolutionary social and political reform to modernise Turkey. These reforms included the emancipation of women, the abolition of all Islamic institutions and the introduction of Western legal codes, dress, calendar and alphabet, replacing the Arabic script with a Latin one. Abroad he pursued a policy of neutrality, establishing friendly relations with Turkey’s neighbours.
In 1935, when surnames were introduced in Turkey, he was given the name Atatürk, meaning ‘Father of the Turks’. He died on 10 November 1938.
Can Dundar’s Mustafa is more lovable
Mehmet Ali Birand
Our republic is 85 years old. We lost its founder 70 years ago. Now take a look at the present situation.
We still have to establish the internal balance of the republic. Nobody is even trying to find a compromise to reconcile the religious and conservative with the secular. To the contrary, the more powerful impose their will on the others. No consideration has been given to changing conditions and international conjecture. It has been 70 years since we lost Atatürk. We are still arguing about the kind of person he was. To some, he was a leader beyond criticism. All his words were as valuable as gold. For others, he was the foe of religion and did a lot of harm to religious persons. Can Dündar has now torn down the stone statues of official ideology by opening this Pandora’s box. I watched the special showing of “Mustafa” at the Dolmabahçe Palace on Monday. I loved Mustafa even more. I was lost in admiration for him. Can Dündar has shown us the human side of Atatürk, whom we had always seen as a stern, serious or even severe leader, riding his bronze horse or leaping out from black and white photos.
We now see him as man who wrote wonderful letters in French to his beloved, drank, sang, danced and had fun with his friends. Can Dündar has shown us a pragmatic leader, who cooperated with people of opposing views when necessary and even shook hands with the devil in order to reach his objective. Can Dündar has opened the doors of an ivory cage in which we shut ourselves for 70 years. I felt much closer to Mustafa. I liked him better than the bronze statues that showed him riding a rampant horse.
Thank you Can Dündar.
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I mean, Talvin Singh - OK
By taking traditional Indian instruments and musical structures and grafting them with Western techno production techniques, he’s created a unique “brown-guy” niche in dance music previously populated by cornholes like Apache Indian. The man already has an impressive resume, leading the British Indian music collective Asian Dub Underground and having contributed to records by Björk and Massive Attack. He’s also a talented composer in his own right.Singh doesn’t just stick some sitars over a breakbeat– the arrangements of tablas, strings, and frenzied backbeats is allowed full prominence here. Talvin Singh is a master at his craft, and it’s evident on O.K. Elegant tabla rhythms mix superbly with electronic music to create a sublime ambient sound from the Asian underground.Rather, he exploits the inherent tendencies of “intelligent” drum-and-bass and classical Indian music (ethereal chords and complex time signatures respectively) to find a natural point of intersection between the two, thereby developing an entirely new style.OK echoes those notorious sessions of Miles’ fusion era not only in its moments of brilliance and spirit of unedited improvisation, but also in the occasional self-indulgent mess. If you like ambient music, or Eastern-influenced electronica, you won’t be sorry you bought this album.
