After a very disappointing breakfast at the hotel are overpriced Erdal collects one's cousin.
Together we go through Ankara. One notes the very close but the residential development - since 1923 - the capital of Turkey. From the name Angora was finally Ankara.
Istanbul is the largest city, Ankara, the second largest.
We park near the Ataturk Mausoleum and boots up. The Ataturk Mausoleum is located on a hill surrounded by green grass. The grave of Ismet Inonu is also here, he was the second president of Turkey. Ataturk's grave is in the Hall of Fame. He was born in Thessaloniki - Greece.
You realize how important the Atatürk mausoleum is here. Supervisory personnel with no walks around the end.
Hero worship like no other, it seems as if Atatürk has been almost superhuman. As elsewhere icons, one finds almost everywhere in Turkey Ataturk image: in classrooms, on banknotes and coins in front of public buildings, etc. in office rooms
Why is it so important for the Turks?
To sum times together:
He was a skilled soldier, by the Ottoman empire after the First World War not broken completely. Here he was certainly not alone, but it is an almost taught.
In 1923, Turkey declared a republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on 1 President and head of state chosen. He tried to radically revamp the country socially, politically and culturally.
The capital is Ankara.
The Gregorian calendar, in Latin characters and Metric measurements were introduced.
There was no time before his family name in Turkey. This he introduced now.
People were allowed to choose their own surnames. So he gave himself the name Ataturk = father of the Turks.
The school system, he nationalized, religious schools, he created off - he had a distant relationship to Islam.
He pushed for the emancipation of women.
He had the Koran translated into Turkish and should not be more mosques in Arabic but are prayed in Turkish.
After his death, developed much back.
He not only had a comparatively distant to islam but even a very hostile.
the defenders of islam then say it quickly once had been a drinker and Attaturk just assume he so practically, such a state to have done under reduced ability sane.
So here's a pattern as he thought about the islam.
very true by the way, I think.
So quote: kemal Attaturk.
"For over 500 years, the rules and theories of an old
Arab sheikhs (Mohammed) and the fanciful interpretations of generations of dirty and ignorant Muslims in the
Turkey, all civil and criminal laws established.
They have the form of the Constitution, and the slightest action
Gestures of a citizen set, its food, the hours of waking and sleeping, customs and habits and
even the most intimate thoughts. Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a decaying
Carcasses of poisoned our lives. "
furthermore a pattern that he was on another occasion:
This pastoral religion of a pedophile warlord (Mohammed) is the biggest millstone around the neck of our nation! "
(Jacques Benoist-Méchin, "Mustafa Kemal. La mort d'un Empire," 1954)
I do not know the sources cited. But basically, it should all be left alone, which we are accustomed to respect God and religion.
Between the private man, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and statesman should also be distinguished.