ATATURK AND ELIF SAFAK AGAIN Re: theguardian/world/gallery/2013/nov/08/ataturk-turkey-photography-ersoy-emin Dear Editor, Elif Safaks comments/reflections on the photos above are as usual often hostile with some facts which are down right wrong. She carries on in her crusade, undermining Ataturks significance for the Turkish Republic and the womens rights. With every opportunity she puts out her subversive messages - promoting an Ottoman and Muslim cultural ideals! Everyone should know that there are many pictures of Ataturk everywhere in civilian clothes and in informal settings (just check all the Ataturk related websites). Her mother obviously was far more sensible and free in appreciating the Ataturks reforms and what they meant for the Turkish women. Even I remember when my mother could write and read in Arabic alphabet more easily than in the Latin alphabet (she learnt the latter later on in her education) and how excited and free she had felt for being one of the first women in Turkish history to be able to vote. One wonders why the Guardian has been employing these sinister writers (the other one being Orhan Pamuk), as representatives of so called Turkish intellectuals, especially in cultural and historical affairs, and spreading a negative and bias perspective on both Ataturk and the most important reforms in Turkish history.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 09:08:30 +0000