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To: Hugin

Wasn’t Ataturk a Greek?


8 posted on 06/29/2016 5:39:57 PM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure.)
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To: Mark17

He was born in what’s now Greece, but was ruled by the Turks then. It seems there’s debate about whether his father was Turkish or Albanian, but his mother was Turkish, and they were Muslims.


21 posted on 06/29/2016 8:02:59 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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