Mustafa Kemal person
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Claims (6)
Mustafa Kemal founded
Turkey guest_asserted
“I disagree in the fact that he was keeping the French and British out. He fought with the Germans, okay, along with the rest of the Ottoman Empire. They were defeated. He became the strong man that was able to coalesce a government that was…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 49:07
Mustafa Kemal headed
Turkey book_quoted
“A new movement welcomed idiotists in their rank and placed some of the party veterans in leading post. Kemal's movement enjoyed great influence in the post-war Turkish military, interior ministries, and particularly the police. Kemalist sym…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 16:19
Mustafa Kemal covered_up
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“A new movement welcomed idiotists in their rank and placed some of the party veterans in leading post. Kemal's movement enjoyed great influence in the post-war Turkish military, interior ministries, and particularly the police. Kemalist sym…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 16:19
Mustafa Kemal pardoned
The Young Turks book_quoted
“organizing escapes of those accused, and sparked large demonstrations and public protests against the trials. Most importantly, Britain, France, and the U.S. were at that time vying with one another to divide up the vast oil and mineral wea…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 16:47
Mustafa Kemal overthrew
Turkey book_quoted
“The Armenian Republic withdrew its promises of aid and protection. Ataturk soon succeeded through force of arms in suppressing Armenia and in establishing a new Turkish government in Ankara. In July of 1923, the Turks and the European allie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 29:29
Mustafa Kemal overthrew
Ottoman Empire guest_asserted
“For the Turkish people, he kind of, on numerous cultural levels, saved them in making a structure whereby they could, you know, function without a king. And yes, the Armenian genocide happened. And what is stated is that they...…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 47:13
Mentions (25)
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Turkish agents from their stay-behind unit in 1955 that threw a bomb into a house in Greece that was used as a museum and was basically a monument to Mustafa Kemal, the museum was, and it was highly revered with all Turkish people.…
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several hundred leaders that were culpable in the crimes. Much of the evidence was published in an official Turkish parliamentary gazette. The trials were strongly opposed by a rising Turkish nationalist movement, however, which regarded th…
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A new movement welcomed idiotists in their rank and placed some of the party veterans in leading post. Kemal's movement enjoyed great influence in the post-war Turkish military, interior ministries, and particularly the police. Kemalist sym…
▶ 16:47
organizing escapes of those accused, and sparked large demonstrations and public protests against the trials. Most importantly, Britain, France, and the U.S. were at that time vying with one another to divide up the vast oil and mineral wea…
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But the associated powers could not agree among themselves on the terms of the division of the Mosul oil fields. A new fighting broke out between Armenian nationalists who sought to establish their republic they believed had been guaranteed…
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contributed to an escalating cycle of revenge killings and renewed massacres in Turkey. By the end of 1920, the Kemalists were clearly in the, they had control. Having established a rival government in Ankara, in the center of the country, …
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abrogate the treaty that they had signed, abruptly shutting down the criminal trials. The Western allies then stepped up their jockeying for influence with the new government. The U.S. High Commissioner to Turkey was Admiral Mark Bristol. A…
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and a determined advocate of U.S. alliance with the new government, with Ataturk. The Armenians, Bristol wrote, are a race like the Jews. They have little or no national spirit and poor moral character. That from a military guy. It was bett…
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stabilize U.S. relations with the emerging Turkish government, and to enlist Ataturk's support in gaining access to the oil fields of the former Ottoman Empire. Bristol's argument found a receptive audience in the new Harding administration…
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the French and the British and their quest for the oil. It was not possible to bring about a desired change in public opinion without denigrating what the Armenians had suffered. Retired U.S. Admiral William Colby Chester joined Admiral Mar…
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was not a disinterested party. The Turkish government had granted him an oil concession in Iraq that was potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Writing in an influential journal, Current History, Chester contended that the Armen…
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were greatly exaggerated. So, in other words, someone got to them. On one hand, there were demands for justice, and on the other hand, U.S. politics and commercial interest in Turkey became the de facto policy of the United States. The dipl…
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The Armenian Republic withdrew its promises of aid and protection. Ataturk soon succeeded through force of arms in suppressing Armenia and in establishing a new Turkish government in Ankara. In July of 1923, the Turks and the European allie…
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to new Turkish borders, officially recognizing the Ataturk government, abandoning any claim on behalf of the Armenian Republic, and specifically agreed to an amnesty for all idiotists who had been convicted in the earlier trials that actual…
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but not near enough. Armenians lost a great deal under the terms of the new treaty, while Western commercial interests prospered. The new Turkish leader, Ataturk, agreed to relinquish all claims on the old Ottoman Empire outside of what was…
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So I just want to, like, this is data that I got there. I'm not saying it's actual, pure, whatever. But this is, and one of the reasons that Erdogan doesn't say it was genocide is because of the superpower of, you know, Ataturk. You know, h…
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They can't, like, slash and burn him and then be politically standing up there because people won't take it, you know? Anyway, that's it. So Ataturk is worshipped as a god in Turkey. There's no doubt about that. Everywhere you go, even on I…
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I disagree in the fact that he was keeping the French and British out. He fought with the Germans, okay, along with the rest of the Ottoman Empire. They were defeated. He became the strong man that was able to coalesce a government that was…
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Turkish officials that had fled there. So you're right in the fact that all generations since then have given Ataturk this godlike persona of being able to stand up and create a Turkey that is modern day Turkey. But the brushing under the r…
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cobbled together the remaining aspects of that and to establish some type of Turkish beachhead was Ataturk. And that is the reason why he is still to this day in Turkey. It is the last bastion of the former Ottoman Empire. And if you guys u…
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That was the Turkish military buildings had a statue of Ataturk in front of it. We don't do that with George Washington. Well, he was military. And the reason he became a hero in the first place is because he fought. He fought this war call…
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in the Purple Pill. So, I mean, that's the thing. Washington was a wartime hero. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But he is not treated in America the way Ataturk is treated in Turkey. There's not even a comparison. You cannot find George Wash…
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I knew you would argue with me about the person that I picked to designate as the war hero. But I'm just telling you that that's the basis. And also, I traveled throughout Turkey. So did I. There's not Ataturk signs everywhere. They are eve…
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No, they're everywhere. They're all over Ankara. They are in Diyarbakir that's just north of Iraq. They were in, what's the other name of that town that we were in? They're everywhere. So anyway. I don't agree, but I just want to- You can't…
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the Armenians were based and where they lived and thrived. And there weren't Ataturk signs. No one in Hayti would have an Ataturk sign. It's a political position to support the nation. And there are people within the landmass of Turkey, lik…