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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

President of Turkey, 1923 to 1938

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Founded modern Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, abolished the caliphate, secularized the law and adopted the Latin alphabet under one-party rule.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly secular on religion, strongly progressive on culture and strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority. The profile is close to the middle on interventionism.

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Where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 19103%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 19804%Mahatma Gandhi Leader of the Indian independence movement6%Bob Marley Jamaican musician, 1945 to 19818%

Political views closest to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

KemalismTurkey's founding ideology of secular, nationalist and state-led modernization.99%State capitalismUses a strong state to steer a market economy toward rapid growth, often limiting…83%Realism in foreign policySees international politics as a contest of power and interests in which states act to…82%Liberal nationalismHolds that nations have a right to self-government and a shared identity, provided they…80%

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