Interestingly Ataturk was a descendant of Shabbatai Zevi as was Jacob Frank (both Turks), the ideological progenitor of what became the Bund der Gerechten, the force behind Marx himself. That legacy remains active in Turkey today.
However, the average Turk isn’t a Marxist, and Marxists or Communists are held in low regard...they’re Nationalist’s with a respect for Atuturk and just want the damn government out of their lives and dictating how they should live their life...sound familiar to our situation? And yes, the rural population are pro-AKP, because they’ve been given handouts, which is also familiar to our situation...How are you tying Ataturk to Communism? Again, the article you show in the previous post specifies that he curtailed/restricted/banned their activities and the left-wing Communists are very few in number there...as has been my experience.