"My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision."

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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.

— Ahmet Ertegun