Most across the wider MENA region (Muslim and Christian Arabs alike) see Kamal Pasha as a terrorist who was instrumental in destroying the Islamic Empire and see the name Atatürk being attributed to him as being an insult to those that lost their lives defending their religion and their land from the allied forces during world war one. Many see Kamal Pasha as a coward who resigned from his post in the army of the Ottoman Empire of which he was as citizen and then after that betrayal there was a warrant for his address and he was sentenced to death in absentia because he was a traitor.

Later on when he managed to pass through so-called modernisation laws by removing the Turkish uthmani text from every day life and replaced it with Latin alphabet, he was despised even more from within and outside the new found state called Turkey. He then went all out to make the new state a secular one which was another reason people never forgave the man saw as the traitor terrorist Kamal Pasha.

Think about it, a non-Muslim heavy alcohol drinker traitor terrorist who managed to weasel his way to the top of a political system of a majority Muslim populated country then tried to eliminate religion from the hearts of its citizens. What a way to die, in disgrace and with cirrhosis of the liver because of heavy drinking which would not have happened had he been practising the very religion he tried to kill. Quite understandable why most Turkish people despise Kamal Pasha.


Vispilio's note: (all lies by the way, only the least educated segments of Islam and Turkish society dislike him because His genius revolution and legendary victories against the Allied powers brought the Turkish nation back to the forefront of human civilization, resurrected from a fallen empire who had been in decline for centuries because of the cultural paralysis caused by a manipulated backward form of political Islam as well as extremely deficient leadership owing to the outrageous Ottoman tradition of caging princes to prevent assassinations


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Others call him Atatürk (father of the Turkish nation) as some form of ultimate respect and see Kamal Pasha as a hero who was one of the authors of the Amasya Circular which led to the Sivas Congress, which in-turn had a multi-pronged objective including the aims of creating an independent state which would not form part of the Ottoman Empire and which would rid it of the British, French, Italian, Greek and other armies that occupied parts of the Ottoman Empire including Constantinople (called Istanbul from 1923).

Many credit him for helping create the state of Turkey as a secular state and want the separation of religion from the state as they see it as a modern thing. They see him as a hero.


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