Wer ist Mustafa Kemal "Atatürk", der Vater der Türken?
Die offizielle türkische Geschichtsschreibung verortet ihn nach Thessaloniki. Sein Vater sei Turkmene, seine Mutter Albanerin gewesen. Türkisch, muslimisch, ur-altaisch also.
Dann gibt es eine weitere Version, die besagt, dass Atatürks Familie Juden waren und später zum Islam konvertiert sind, sogenannte "Dönmehs", die einem Hochstapler namens Sabbetai Zvi folgten und ein Krypto-Judentum lebten. Nach außen hin also nur vorgaben muslimisch zu sein, doch im Geheimen die Lehren des Sabbetai Zvi befolgten. Atatürk soll sogar das Shema Yisra'el auswendig gekonnt haben.
Jetzt ist ein neues Buch erschienen, das alles bisher gekannte in den Schatten stellt. Der Vater der Türken soll ursprünglich nicht aus Thessaloniki, sondern aus Malatya gestammt haben.
Einem Ort, der damals noch vor dem Völkermord an den Armeniern überwiegend armenisch geprägt war und heutezutage für seine Christenmörder, Fundamentalisten und Rechtsradikalen bekannt ist.
In den türkischen Zeitungen geht es unter den Kolumnisten nun heiß her. Hat die offizielle türkische Geschichtsschreibung Atatürk vielleicht von Malatya nach Thessaloniki verortet, um zu verhindern, dass eine Verbindung zu den Armeniern hergestellt wird?
Orhan Kemal Cengiz von der ZAMAN stellt da interessante Überlegungen an:
"Malatya was one of the provinces which were heavily populated by Armenians in the past. If this new version of Atatürk’s origins is true, the first question to come to mind is why the history writers fabricated the well-known version of his life. Did they write the official version to disassociate Atatürk from Anatolian Armenians? If the new story is true, there must be a reason.
The facts of Turkish history are still surrounded by many taboos, some of which have caused loss of life. You know how the tragic events leading to the assassination of Hrant Dink began. He simply dared to say that Atatürk’s adopted daughter Sabiha Gökçen was indeed an Armenian orphan. And this revelation was followed a lynching campaign and he was killed after that."
Was Atatürk an Armenian?
http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=290227Oder war Atatürk tatsächlich ein jüdischer "Dönmeh", Konvertit.
Hillel Halkin hat hier eine ganz andere Geschichte zu erzählen:
"Actually, Ataturk's Jewishness, which he systematically sought to conceal, explains a great deal about him, above all, his fierce hostility toward Islam, the religion in which nearly every Turk of his day had been raised, and his iron-willed determination to create a strictly secular Turkish nationalism from which the Islamic component would be banished.
Who but a member of a religious minority would want so badly to eliminate religion from the identity of a Muslim majority that, after the genocide of Turkey's Christian Armenians in World War I and the expulsion of nearly all of its Christian Greeks in the early 1920s, was 99% of Turkey's population? The same motivation caused the banner of secular Arab nationalism to be first raised in the Arab world by Christian intellectuals.
Ataturk seems never to have been ashamed of his Jewish background. He hid it because it would have been political suicide not to, and the secular Turkish state that was his legacy hid it too, and with it, his personal diary, which was never published and has for all intents and purposes been kept a state secret all these years. There's no need to hide it any longer. The Islamic counterrevolution has won the day in Turkey even without its exposure."
Ataturk's Turkey Overturned
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/ataturks-turkey-overturned/58997/
