Is Greece About To Lay Legal Claim To Atatürk And His Legacy?
Andrew Korybko
It’s absurd to consider the founding father of the modern-day Turkish state as anything other than a Turk, but if the Greek Parliament passes the recently concluded “name deal” with Macedonia, then Athens will legally be obliged to regard everything in Greek Macedonia – including Atatürk, who was born in the regional capital of Thessaloniki – as having the “attribute” of being part of “Hellenic civilization, history, culture and heritage…from antiquity to the present day”.
Historical revisionism is back in season in the Balkans following the signing of the so-called “
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