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“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”
― Mustafa Kemal Ata��ü����, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: First President and Founder of the Turkish Republic

“Eğitim, kültür ve bilgi aydınlığa açılan en geniş penceredir.”
― Mustafa Kemal Ata��ü����

“Why after my years of education, after studying the secular civilization and the socialization process, should i decent to the level of common people, i will make them rise to my level, let me not resemble them, they should resemble me!”
― Mustafa Kemal Ata��ü����

“If we hadn't had Ata��ü����, we would have been an Afghanistan, an Iraq!”
― Özden Toker

“The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is Ata��ü����, an immortal revolutionist!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“…In the eyes of a desperate and desolate Germany, this was a nationalist dream come true, or rather something like hyper-nationalist pornography��”
― Stefan Ihrig, Ata��ü���� in the Nazi Imagination

“Bir ülke için en büyük kahraman, milletine ilerici bir vizyon, barışçıl bir ruh, modern bir zihin ve bilime sarsılmaz bir inanç veren kişidir. Ve Türkler için bu şerefli isim Mustafa Kemal Ata��ü����’tür, ölümsüz bir devrimci!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I've got to drink: my mind keeps on working hard and fast to the point of suffering. I have to slow it down and rest it at times.. when I don't drink, I can't sleep, and the distress stupefies me.”
― Mustafa Kemal Ata��ü����

“Hitler repeatedly did everything he could to avoid upsetting the Turks. On two occasions he forbade military operations in Turkish waters when chasing the enemy. After Crete was taken, he stressed that except for a Kraft-durch-Freude (Strength through Joy) facility, nothing else, especially not military installations, could be built there, in order not to upset the Turks. The New Turkey was repeatedly invited to take part in the New Order of Europe”
― Stefan Ihrig, Ata��ü���� in the Nazi Imagination

“The Kemal-ist way to “make politics”�� to wage war against the Entente for an honorable peace�� was viewed as “active politics�� par excellence. The opposite was what the papers diagnosed in the case of Germany: ful-fi llment politics, which in their eyes was either “passive politics�� or not even politics at all. The Kladderadatsch cartoon “How to Revise a Peace Treaty�� summarized this debate and Turkey’s role- model function perfectly. It ruled out historians, diplomats, and politi-cians as agents of revision. The one who achieves revision is a Turk, “saber in hand”—“action�� instead of “talk.”
― Stefan Ihrig, Ata��ü���� in the Nazi Imagination

“lost incredible amounts of blood. Then the state literally breaks down because of hunger and the lack of everything. A collapse just as monumental as the German one, just translated into Turkish. Five years later it [the collapse] led to the Treaty of Sèvres [here he confused the Treaty of Sèvres with the Treaty of Lausanne], with the result that the Turkish Empire is founded again and that the world speaks with highest respect of this Turkish state. The inner strength had remained, it was instantly mobilized as soon as the man [Ata��ü����] came who managed to remind his people of its great tradition and who led them forward. That is what was different with us Germans”
― Stefan Ihrig, Ata��ü���� in the Nazi Imagination

“Birçok asker şehit oldu, bizim ��ü����iye için - Ata��ü����'ün ��ü����iye için. Ata��ü����'ün ��ü����iye yani? Ata��ü����'ün ��ü����iye yani vicdan, merhamet, sabır ve baris - Ata��ü����'ün ��ü����iye yani ���Բ����Ա�ı��. Uyan kardeşlerim, yeni fikirleri kabul et - vicdan ol, cesur ol, ve hayvanlık karşı yürü.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“You are either Ataturk's turk or Erdogan's turk, you cannot be both.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“I don't have any allegiance to any single flag, but still I cannot disrespect them either with words or with action, you know why, because a flag represents a people, therefore disrespecting a flag means disrespecting a people. Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a great leader in one of the countries of planet earth. The military of a neighboring country had taken over a region there, but accompanied by his brave soldiers the great leader liberated that part of his country from oppression. In celebration when the people of his country laid down the flag of the oppressor for their leader to walk on, he refused - he refused to insult even the flag of an invading country, for such is the character of a true leader. Leaders don't insult others to feel superior - they simply live as an epitome of courage, conscience and humility, and others can't help but follow on their own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity