Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's cult of personality
Cult of personality surrounding Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Atatürk's cult of personality was started during the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk[1] and continued by his successors after his death in 1938, by members of both his Republican People's Party and opposition parties alike,[2] and in a limited amount by himself during his lifetime in order to popularize and cement his social and political reforms as a founder and the first President of Turkey.[3] The cult has been compared to similar personality cults in the authoritarian regimes of Central Asia and the Soviet Union.[4][5]