If you have a fair basis to be wary of the West (or anyone else)....while retaining Ataturk's republican principles at the core.... I have no issue.
That will always make itself known to anyone reasonable watching and reading.
It is however plain to see when that is NOT the case ...and the whole thing is reductive from certain people....to hate the west as the first principle...to hate secularism as the first principle....and then deploy that back in time on Ataturk even in whatever way (there are threads illustrating this amply before).
I have observed some members here long enough to know the symptoms of the irrational disease afflicting them...and their cruder transients that flitter by on specific threads like this one....hoping to get some kick out of it.
I will make it known what I think of such people....without needing to name them.
This isnt the thread for this tbh but do allow me to share my thoughts on the issue
IMO, there is no nation that is 100% secular; some sort of religion or identity must have roots within the framework of the nation; from the USA to France to UK to Italy to Greece To Turkey to the Med East to India to China itself etc....
The notion of completely separating religion and politics is completely impossible. Some religions do prohibit certain actions that cant be formed during politics and vice versa etc...
That applies to Ataturk as well. Ataturk was one of the most patriotic guys Tuks ever had; unlike the current rulers of his party tbh! He fought in the Ottoman army (during its last days) and knew what lost cause it was and thus resigned and supported the Turks fight against the Western fools. Ataturk wasnt perfect but he did give Turkey the basis for all the things it lacked. However, after he died, all the basis for such improvement was destroyed by the so-called secular party at the time
If such things were to remain, Turkey rn would have been teaching Russia a lesson Directly for its lost soldiers and not indirectly by supporting Ukraine. You dont know how many times I wished if Ataturk has been alive for 10 to 20 more, at least Turkey would have bloody indigenous functioning planes
I wont deny that polotical leaders like the AKP's Erdo is use religion for his benefit in some cases and I wont deny that some members do hate Ataturk in general (which is quite wrong) but I would say that semi-broken nationalism is still a 100 times better than hardocore secularism. At least the country will gain something
A nation cant definitely improve if its leaders have no sort of nationalism, patriotism or intimacy with its own nation's history