diktatör lafını duyunca birden yobaz, cahil, kulaktan duyma falan diyorsa biri bil ki o aydın bir atatürkçüdür.
bu konu subjektif bir mesele de değil azıcık tarih, siyaset bilen bilir böyle oldugunu.. diktatörün tanımı belli atatürk'ün de yaptıkları belli.
tartısmaya bile degmez bir konu.
www.hurriyetdailynews.com“A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.”
Now, honestly, wasn’t Atatürk a ruler with total power over Turkey throughout his political career?
Sure he was. From 1925 to 1938, the golden era of Turkey’s single-party era, Atatürk had absolute and unchecked political power. He not only banned all opposition parties and figures, but also closed down all civil society institutions, from Sufi orders, to feminist clubs, to freemasons.
And had Atatürk not obtained power by force?
Sure he did. He never competed with his opponents in free and fair elections. He rather relied on arbitrary courts which executed an estimated 5,000 of his dissidents. One of his Atatürk’s prominent political rivals, Ali Şükrü Bey, a parliamentarian, was murdered by none other than one of Atatürk’s devotees. Meanwhile, Atatürk’s most notable political rival, war hero Kazım Karabekir, spent more than a decade under house arrest.
In fact, one would not even need this historical knowledge to decide to agree or disagree with Mr. Altan. If, in any country, you risk going to jail for calling a ruler a “dictator,” wouldn’t that be evidence enough that the ruler in question is indeed a dictator?