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Turkey's Ataturk still prevalent in everyday life

Bradley Secker
November 10, 2018

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's presence can still be felt in a landscape increasingly dominated by President Tayyip Recep Erdogan. Bradley Secker traveled through Turkey to find secular iconography of the republic's founder.

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Istanbul Türkei feiert 80. Todestag von Atatürk
Image: picture-alliance/AA/M-E. Yildirim

Turkey is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic.