Talk:Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Semi-protected edit request on 26 June 2014

[musˈtäfä ceˈmäl ätäˈtyɾc] ---> [musˈtafa keˈmal ataˈtyɾc]

Nevermind past request, i get it, K is written as C, but it might as well be written as K

ɑ is the right letter for a in Mustafa Kemal, there is no ä in turkish ipa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Turkish,_Azerbaijani_and_Turkmen and K is better than C, turkish learners may be confused, because C is pronounced DJ

Scottish Rite Freemasonry

Atatürk was initiated in the Scottish Rite regular Masonic Lodge Macedonia Risorta et Veritas No. 80 of Salonicco (Robert A. Minder: Freimaurer Politiker Lexikon, Edition zum rauhen Stein, ISBN 3-7065-1909-7, p. 229–231...Atatürk, Kemal. In: Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner: Internationales Freimaurerlexikon. 2006, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3, p. 92.) The historician Andrew Mango considers his affiliation to the Freemasonry to be highly verisimilar (Andrew Mango: Atatürk, John Murray, 1999, ISBN 0-7195-5612-0, p. 93.).

Semi-protected edit request on 26 July 2023

Please remove the following statement.

The rise of Turkish nationalism saw the Ottoman Empire perpetrate genocides against its Greek, Armenian and Assyrian subjects; while not directly involved, Atatürk's role in their aftermath been controversial.

This is a contentious and inaccurate statement, added without consensus from the community despite being removed multiple times.[1][2]

The Ottoman state was in its dissolution process in 1910-1920, and Greek, Armenian, Assyrian nationalist rebels tried to create their independent states. The government implemented counterinsurgency measures against its subjects, which were not limited to Christians but also included Muslims such as Arabs. The Ottoman forces carried out forced migration of the population in regions where the revolts took place. The Western scholarly community views those events as a civil war between different ethnic groups where mutual killings occurred. There is no consensus that those events tantamount to genocide in the absence of an intention to annihilate those peoples.

 Not done This is revisionism, there is a large consensus about this.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 20:39, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

@Wikaviani You should differentiate between revisionism and negationism. The scholarly studies of Turkish history since 1970s showed that the traditional Western narrative of oppressed Christian minorities and tyrant Turks are false. It was a fabrication created by the Allies of WW1 as a war-time propaganda to rally public support in their countries for the war. Those claims were rebutted thanks to the research conducted with the authentic documents in the Ottoman archives in Turkey. It was also debunked in the reports of General Harbord, who had visited Anatolia and documented atrocities committed by the Armenians in first hand. Historians now view it as a one-dimensional obsolete historical theory that has no place in serious academic research.

General Harbord's report on Armenia, Conditions in the Middle East: The Report of Military Mission to Armenia, p. 35,

We know, however, so much to be a fact that the Armenians in the new State are carrying on operations in view of exterminating the Mussulmen element in obedience to orders from the Armenian corps commander. We have had copies of their orders under our eyes. That the Armenians of Erivan are following a policy of extermination against the Mussulmen and this wave of sanguinary savagery has spread right up to our frontier is also established by the fact of the presence within our borders of numerous Mussulmen fleeing from death on the other side. The government of Erivan has, on the other hand, resorted to direct acts of provocation such as the practice of gunfire this side of the border.

The report dated 1916 on the massacre committed in Bitlis and Van by the Russian and Armenian forces, taken from Documents on the Massacres Perpetrated by Armenians, p. 41

During the occupation of Van and Bitlis terrible cruelties were commited by Russian and Armenian brigands against the muslim population; cossack cavalry arriving in Bitlis, massacred muslim families and children fleeing the Armenians; hearing that the Russians were coming to Van, Armenians uprose and pursued the fleeing muslim population trying to escape and tragically killed them, massacred thousands of women, young girls and men among those who didn't emigrate; all the population of the villages of Zive, Mollakâsım, Şeyhkara, Şeyhayne, Ayans, Paksi, Zorâbâd and many other villages, who stayed unable to emigrate were all exterminated and not a single person escaped the carnage; on the eve of the arrival of the Russians to Dir, a town attached to Hakkari, Armenians made irruptions on the roads and massacred all the male Kurdish population of the villages situated on these roads and cut up into chunks with daggers and swords more than thousand small children the oldest less than three years and used the cut and broken bodies as trenches and ravished more than four hundred Kurdish girls, the old women being killed.

213.14.255.20 (talk) 20:54, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

None of your above cites can challenge the mass of high quality sources that support the genocides in the Ottoman Empire, especially against Armenians. I decline your request. We're done.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:08, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

how can you say couldn't challenge? there were the reasons why the armenians were deported. -zerenk (talk) 14:15, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I did not find any "high quality sources" talking about Ataturk's role in genocides. Maybe you could add a few sources to the page? 88.245.205.19 (talk) 09:15, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

References

1. Binark. İ. (1995). Arşiv Belgelerine Göre Kafkaslar’da ve Anadolu’da Ermeni Mezâlimi [Armenian Violence and Massacre in the Caucasus and Anatolia Based on Archives] Vol. I (1906-1918) and Vol. II (1919). Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayınları, Ankara
2. Çiçek, K. (2012). The Great War and the forced migration of Armenians. Athol Books.
3. Çiçek, K. (2020). The Armenians of Musa Dagh, 1915–1939: A Story of Insurgency and Flight. Lexington Books.
4. Çiçek, K. (2010). Relocation of Ottoman Armenians in 1915: A Reassesment. Review of Armenians Studies, 22, 115-134.
5. Dyer, G. (1976). Turkish ‘falsifiers’ and Armenian ‘deceivers’: historiography and the Armenian massacres. Middle Eastern Studies, 12(1), 99-107.
6. Erickson, E. J. (2013). Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency (p. 119). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
7. Erickson, E. J. (2008). The Armenians and Ottoman military policy, 1915. War in History, 15(2), 141-167.
8. Gauin, M. (2015). “Proving” a “Crime against Humanity”?. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 35(1), 141-157.
9. Göyünç, N. (1983). Osmanlı İdaresinde Ermeniler. Gültepe Yayınları.
10. Güçlü, Y. (2012). A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire.
11. Gürün, K. (1985). The Armenian file: The myth of innocence exposed. Rustem.
12. Halaçoğlu, Y. (2002). Facts on the Relocation of Armenians (1914-1918) (No. 94). Turkish Historical Society Printing House.
13. Halaçoğlu, Y. (2008). The story of 1915: what happened to the Ottoman Armenians? (No. 113). Turkish Historical Society.
14. Halaçoğlu, Y. (2006). Die Armenierfrage. Wieser.
15. Lewis, B. (1961). The emergence of modern Turkey (No. 135). Oxford University Press.
16. Lewy, G. (2005). Revisiting the Armenian genocide. Insight Turkey, 89-99.
17. Lewy, G. (2005). The Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A disputed genocide. University of Utah Press.
18. Lewy, G. (2007). Can there be genocide without the intent to commit genocide?. Journal of Genocide Research, 9(4), 661-674.
19. McCarthy, J., Arslan, E., & Taskiran, C. (2006). The Armenian Rebellion at Van (p. 282). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
20. McCarthy, J. (2003). Missionaries and the American Image of the Turks. In Turkish-American Relations (pp. 49-71). Routledge.
21. Palabıyık, M. S. (2015). Understanding the Turkish-Armenian Controversy Over 1915. Beta.
22. Sarinay, Y. (2011). The Relocations (Tehcir) of Armenians and the Trials of 1915–16. Middle East Critique, 20(3), 299-315.
23. Sarınay, Y. (2001). Ermeniler Tarafından Yapılan Katliam Belgeleri [Documents on the Massacre Perpetrated by Armenians] Vol. I (1914-1919) and Vol. II (1919-1921). Ankara: Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü.
24. Stone, N. (2004). Armenia and Turkey. TLS-The Times Literary Supplement, (5298), 17-17.
25. Yavuz, M. H. (2011). Contours of scholarship on Armenian-Turkish relations. Middle East Critique, 20(3), 231-251.

95.12.120.115 22.23, 3 Temmuz 2023 (UTC) 213.14.255.20 (talk) 20:30, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

• I'd like to offer thanks and 100% support to Wikaviani's refusal of this edit request. It is not difficult to find dozens upon dozens of fringe sources for any revisionist fable. They simply do not negate the overwhelming consensus of reliable scholars into this subject that document various genocidal actions before the Ataturk regime and either supported, denied, covered-up or continued by him and his government. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 21:26, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

  @Last1in @Wikaviani All reliable scholars concur that there was no genocide, yet you are refusing to read their sources and omitting a vast literature on Turkish history written by experts who can actually understand Ottoman Turkish. You cannot write a neutral and accurate account of the Ottoman government's policies without reading Ottoman documents. Ottoman census shows that the Armenians constituted minority in all the regions they lived in the Anatolia and they could fulfill their aspirations to create an independent state only by ethnically cleansing the majority Turks. Ottoman government did not commit genocide but defended its territory. The so-called Armenian "genocide" is a historical fiction. The Greek government recognized its war crimes in Anatolia in the Treaty of Lausanne.

  

  Monument dedicated to Turkish massacre victims killed by Armenians. 213.14.255.20 (talk) 21:44, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Enough with this crap. Next comment like that and i report you.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:57, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Turkish civilians murdered by Greek soldiers in İzmir in 1919.

@Wikaviani I am showing you sources but you are threatening to report me. If you have evidence and I am a liar, it should be really easy for you to rebut my claims. The way you threaten me is a reflection of your incompetence. The historical research must be conducted impartially by analyzing reliable sources. I have cited 25 sources you haven't cited any. This makes me think that you are clearly not here to build an encyclopedia. 213.14.255.20 (talk) 22:16, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikaviani: Not helping. IP.20, this is obviously important to you, but yours is not a POV that is accepted by the preponderance of scholars. In fact, your POV has been widely debunked by reliable experts around the world other than those in Türkiye and its diaspora. The actions of the Greeks and others are appropriate for those articles, not this one. Wikipedia is not a soapbox and the Talk pages are not a forum to argue for specific views. If, in time, a preponderance of the reliable sources come to agree with you, then Wikipedia will definitely be updated with that information. That day is not today, and does not appear likely based on current research outside the Turkish world. Please don't push this further. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 23:05, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

@Last1in @Last1in Greek government recognized its war crimes in an international treaty. You cannot deny written history. Greeks crimes are recorded allover the world archives.

ARTICLE 59.
Greece recognises her obligation to make reparation for the damage caused in Anatolia by the acts of the Greek army or administration which were contrary to the laws of war.
On the other hand, Turkey, in consideration of the financial situation of Greece resulting from the prolongation of the war and from its consequences, finally renounces all claims for reparation against the Greek Government.[3]

The inventor of the word genocide, Raphael Lemkin, called the Greek invasion of Anatolia, a genocide committed against Turks. This Wikipedia article falsifies history and contradicts international scholarly consensus on the Greek invasion and the Armenian rebellion. 213.14.255.20 (talk) 23:16, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

You have been asked politely to stop. If you want to add info about the Greeks, please put that info in the appropriate article. It does not belong in this article. Your disruptive posts here are in violation of policy for several reasons. This kind of disruption is the reason this article is protected. Please stop immediately. Last1in (talk) 23:35, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

@Last1in Those sources show that the Greek and Armenian claims against Atatürk are unfounded. Atatürk defended Turkish homeland by defeating invaders and preventing a genocide by the Greek and Armenians. By omitting valid evidence, you are violating reliable sources policy, which is a textbook case of disruptive editing. 213.14.255.20 (talk) 23:43, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikaviani and other editors, please ignore the troll. The IP's request has been properly denied. The reasons have been explained. Attempts to reason with them has been unsuccessful. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 23:56, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Dear Last1in, following this diagram may guide you into solving your problems.

@Last1in I can understand your frustration. You were shocked by seeing the truth about the Armenian and Greek crimes. I know it is hard to accept the reality for in many parts of the world Armenian government propaganda is taught due to intense lobbying pressure.[4] You are now in denial stage and acting with your emotions instead of your reason. You think writing with bold fonts will make you right, when actually the facts are against you. You should analyze the history methodically in an impartial manner. The overwhelming historical evidence and scholarly consensus show that there was a premeditated annihilation campaign against Turks by the Greeks and Armenians. Ottoman government and Turkish national movement under Atatürk's leadership acted in legitimate self-defense in a time of crisis just like described by the esteemed British historian Arnold Toynbee in his book Acquintences. Cheers, 213.14.255.20 (talk) 00:25, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Since you ask me to ignore this troll, then ok, however i was trying to make them stop and thought in good faith that my last message was helping. Unfortunately, we meet too many nothere editors like them around. Best.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:29, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

i am not here to discuss about genocide but i don't see the point to mention it in Ataturk's page. He is not involved in it .His role in the aftermath? It is controversial? There is no proven record to accuse him but it is in his title section. That doesn't make sense at all. If you don't delete this line can you add some sources for it? IlberOCelalS (talk) 12:40, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

As it happens, I was just reviewing those sources. You can find them as refs 74-79 cited in the subsection on Ottoman genocides. They include specific and well-source rebuttals of denialism and some revisionist POVs. I am looking to add more but have not completed the research. Also, it is not typical to have many inline citations in the lede, hence the lack of a specific cite there. Citations typically belong in the body in most cases, another thing that could use cleanup in the article. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 13:22, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

All sources mentioned there point that he is not involved in it. IlberOCelalS (talk) 14:14, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

This state need to be remowed since its stating that Atatürk indirecly involved in this events.He was at Gallipoli at 1915 and he was a low rank officer so there is no way he can be inolved in this events anyways.He had no role any of this event so this state is a slander and needs to be removed. Stating these events on the introductory paragraph in a article about Atatürk is simply an attack on his name.There is no source ties Atatürk and these events.

The rise of Turkish nationalism saw the Ottoman Empire perpetrate genocides against its Greek, Armenian and Assyrian subjects; while not directly involved, Atatürk's role in their aftermath been controversial. MyUsernameIsSecret (talk) 10:59, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

That statement makes it clear that Atatürk was not directly involved in those specific acts of genocide. Instead, his role in denying, rewriting, and/or covering up the genocide (the 'aftermath') is documented but highly controversial. The facts are well-sourced and supported by an overwhelming majority of scholars outside Türkiye. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 14:31, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Given that the edit request that initiated this section of the talk page was rejected, and that there was really no legitimate reason for the request to have even been made, and that the rest of this section consists of genocide-denialist propaganda and lies, should not this whole section just be deleted? Or, at a minimum, everything after the initial suggestion and its rejection? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.170.40.164 (talk) 22:57, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Can you also provide the cases in which:

The successive presidents of the countries who prosecuted the war crimes that have been committed during their own independence war?

“Indirect involvement” is a bit of stretch here. CakiLuci (talk) 10:19, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 January 2024

Remove speculation:

“During this time, the Ottoman Empire perpetrated genocides against its Greek, Armenian and Assyrian subjects; while not directly involved, Atatürk's role in their aftermath has been controversial.”

There is no source or basis for this claim (Ataturk’s involvement) nor there is a controversy. Therefore it is the writer’s obligation to provide evidence/citation. CakiLuci (talk) 10:06, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. Geardona (talk to me?) 18:35, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Origins

Writing down "Turkish speaking of Albanian origin" firstly is a hoax. He is Turkish in maternal and paternal family, originally in every 9/10 sources. Please, write down "he is of Yoruk- Turcoman origin but some claims state that he may be of Albanian origin." Furkanberk52 (talk) 13:42, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

I do not see any definitive statement on his origins being made in the article. Uness232 (talk) 13:58, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Include hyperlink for İsmet İnönü

Someone needs to add a hyperlink for İsmet İnönü's page under Ataturk's infobox ("Succeeded by _____") as second president of Turkey. GVPTdks (talk) 21:16, 5 March 2024 (UTC)