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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk swept together the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and founded the modern Republic of Turkey in 1923. The reforms of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk were a revolution in all respects: he replaced Sharia law with European laws, separating religion and state, exchanged the Arabic script for the Latin. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk made the big difference between Turkey and the Middle East. Ataturk's been dead 72 years and although Turks stubbornly stick to his ideas, his legacy is under pressure. Original title: The Father of the Turks In this seven-part series Bram Vermeulen travels through Turkey - From Istanbul to the sparsely populated mountains in the east; from the closed borders of Armenia to the open southern borders shared with neighboring Arab countries - observing the rapid changes in a country that has a renewed fresh confidence. In Turkey, was awarded the Special Award Discourse and Politics at the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2011 in by VPRO, The Netherlands Presentation: Bram Verm
