Try as you like, no one can deny that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk made Turkey and the Turkish people great. Turkey is a stable and strong nation because of his policies, and nothing you put forward can deny this. If Turkey had kep the old Ottoman system it would be suffering today from the same ailments that Arabic countries are suffering from. Arabic countries are so weak and backward no wonder they are under constant threat of invasion from the West or anybody else. In contrast, modern Turkey has defeated its enemies and secured its national borders against foreign intervention. Furthermore, it has successfully intervened in Cyprus to protect the Turkish population of that island from aggression. Which other majority-Muslim country can claim such accomplishments? Ataturk was wise to know that those people who went against progress, and did not modernise, would become the slaves of the imperial powers. Fortunately, he saved his people from such a fate, and Turks ought to be forever grateful to him!