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Ataturk was wonderful.
Ataturk was great.

Yet if Ataturk
was so wonderful?
Why did he drink raki
every night so late?

If he had been a
Winston Churchill?
He might have partaken
of brandy and cigars?

Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) was a soldier, statesman, reformer, founder and first president (1923-1938) of the Republic of Turkey. He was given the name Ataturk (‘Father of Turks’) by the National Assembly in 1934.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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