Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's cult of personality

Atatürk's cult of personality, also referred to as Atatürk fetishism, was started during the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and continued by his successors after his death in 1938, by members of both his Republican People's Party and opposition parties alike, as well as by himself, believing that he was "always right". It was established during his lifetime in order to popularize and cement his social and political reforms as a founder and the first President of Turkey.

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