Re: For people the respect Mustafa Kamal Attaturk
Many people do not know but truth is that, Turkey even though is associated with Ottomans and claims history of Ottoman as their history, in reality, present day Turkey is a new country that was founded by Kamal Ataturk.
Ataturk for turkey is similar to Quaid-e-Azam for Pakistan. He is the father, liberator, and founder of a country what we know as Turkey. Without the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam, there would have been no Pakistan and the area we call Pakistan would have been part of India. Without Kamal Ataturk, there would have been no present day Turkey and the area we call Turkey, most of that would have been part of Greece.
After Ottoman Empire (or call it Khalafat) lost the war and Khalifa surrendered to allied, all areas of Ottoman Empire came under the control of Allied.
** It was Kamal Ataturk that liberated the area and founded a country, we now know as Turkey. **The area we now know as Turkey never existed as a country nor ever existed in any form as one unit. What Ataturk managed to capture out of surrendered Ottoman Empire became present day Turkey.
Why Ataturk hated anything arabic and religion at state level is obvious, as it was religion Ottoman Turks trusted most, and it was so-called Arab Muslims that stabbed them on the back. Same Muslims that were part of their Khalafat and co-citizen became partners of their Kuffar enemies and tool in Ottoman defeat.
One of the major roles played in the defeat of Ottomans and bringing down their empire were Wahabis (of Arabia). Wahabis under the command of Abdul Aziz bin Saud and help of British, started revolt against Turks and were attacking Turks all over the Ottoman Empire in Arabia and other part of Arab world. The gift of treachery given to Abdul Aziz by British is part of Jazerah-tul-Arabia (Nejd and Hejez) that belonged to Ottomans. This was done in 1927, when British gave independence to the occupied land and Abdul Aziz was made King of Nejd and Hejaz.
Just imagine the character and mentality of Abdul Aziz. Jazeerah-tul-Arabia is the name given to this land by Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and no Muslim ever called this land by any name other then Arabia. But after getting this land as gift from British, Abdul Aziz bin Saud named this land on the name of his ancestor (saud), and thus now it is called Saudi Arabia (or Arabia of Saud). Before naming Arabia as Saudi Arabia, never a country was named on the name of a person, as if the country belongs to that person.
Arabs other then Wahabis also played their role in bringing down Ottoman Empire at different places. It was complete revolt amongst Arabs against Ottomans in support of British. Lawrence of Arabia was one of many British agents that helped the cause of British amongst Arabs. Muslims from subcontinent in British armed forces also fought Turk forces.
[Note: Egypt, Oman, Yemen, and all Arab countries in North Africa, none were part of Ottoman Empire when war started. Arab revolts were in areas that were under Ottomans, and they were Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait, and Jordan].
The result of Wahabis and role of other Arabs in bringing down Ottoman Khalafat was such that even now Turks hate Wahabis in particular and Arabs in general. Even though Israel was established on land occupied from Turks (Ottoman Empire), hate of Arabs amongst Turks developed so much that Turkey was the first Muslim country that recognised Israel.
Mustafa Kamal Ataturk made his name in Ottoman Turkey as he was the commander and architect of surprise ambush, massacre, and defeat of Allied forces when they landed in Gallipoli. Ottoman forces under Ataturk inflicting huge losses on Allied forces, mostly from NZ and Australia, and thus saving Turkish mainland from invasion. Ambush in Gallipoli, where Allied casualties were around 200 thousand, made Allied realize that it would be difficult and expensive in casualties to capture mainland Turkey, hence they gave up.
What happened in Gallipoli was that Allied choose a suitable surprise place on mainland turkey to land their troops, to capture mainland turkey. Turks, after loosing the war were waiting for such landing but could not tell where Allied would land. It is claimed that it was Ataturk sixth sense that made him realise that Allied might land at Gallipoli and thus, he put his army there waiting for the landing. When Allied landed, they found Turks waiting for them. Result was ambush by Turks on landing Allied forces and massacre of Allied forces at Gallipoli.
Nevertheless, once Istanbul was captured along with Khalifa, allied made the Khalifa (imprisoned in European part of Istanbul) announces ceasefire with order to Turk forces to surrender. Once Turk forces surrendered, allied gave green signal to Greece to occupy as much as they can of Turkey mainland. Greece started occupying Turkey mainland.
Mustafa Kamal Ataturk (titled Pasha after his Gallipoli success) declared independence from the Ottomans and disobeyed the Khalifa acceptance of ceasefire and surrender, and thus started his own campaign to rebuild Turkish army and gave a fight to Greeks, recapturing all of mainland Turkey.
Later, Allied forces gave the European part of Istanbul to New country ‘Turkey’ that was now under the rule of Kamal Ataturk. Nevertheless, all islands belonging to Ottoman Empire, near and around Turkey mainland that Greece occupied but Ataturk could not liberate, as he did not had any navy, still belongs to Greece (even now, many Islands stone throw from Turkey and far away from Greece belongs to Greece).
Thus, one can say that existence of today’s Turkey is gift of Ataturk and obviously the personality of Ataturk is worth all respect, because of whom, Turkey is still independent country, not part of greater Greece.
As Pakistanis love M A Jinnah who worked to get Pakistanis a country and Pakistanis would like all their friends to respect Quiad-e-Azam, similarly Ataturk is the person that fought and won a country for Turks and thus it is duty of all who consider Turks their friend to respect Ataturk.
[Obviously, all happens what Allah wishes. Nevertheless, it is Allah that gives love and respect to particular person amongst Nations and makes that person father of that nation. Similar to Quaid-e-Azam, Ataturk was one such personality]