| happydolphin said: That was cool, but one of those sirens was really creepy and annoying. Who is the savior and what did he do for Turkey? |
He was the driving force behind the Young Turk movement which arose in the Ottoman Empire before the First World War and advocated for modernization/revitilization of the empire that was known as "The Sick Man of Europe" (forgetting that Europe had three "sick men" at the time, Russia and Austria were tottering as well). Ataturk helped usher out the monarchy when the Ottomans lost World War I, defended the country from a joint Greek/British/French/Caucasian effort to destroy Turkey after the first world war, then went on to enforce secularization, flipped their country off of the Arabic alphabet and onto the Roman one, and brought the first democracy to the near East
Just don't ever mention the word Armenia.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
