12/15/2025
https://atlasthink.org/why-turkeys-islamists-and-liberals-blame-ittihatcilik-and-kemalism-for-everything/ by Hakan Yavuz
There is a fashionable consensus among Turkey’s liberal and Islamist commentators—Ahmet Altan among them—that “the Young Turks destroyed the Ottoman Empire, and it is impossible to understand how their mentality still survives in Turkey today.” (1) This line is repeated so reflexively that...