Explanation: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is considered, with good reason, the founder of modern Turkiye. He was an intensely driven man whose aggressive secularism saw no room for religious restrictions on individuals - a champion of feminism and free thought both. He was charismatic, forward-thinking, popular, averse to personal corruption, and filled with an utterly tireless, borderline manic energy. Whatever the weaknesses of his approach towards modernizing Turkiye after saving the country from effective dissolution by the victors of WW1, which some would characterize (not unfairly, especially in the early 20s) as ruthless or autocratic, few would dispute that he was an idealist who saw Turkiye’s future as democratic, and worked to minimize his own role and power as his secular ideology began to set down roots in the country.

… he was also a prodigious drinker, drinking a liter of liquor every day by some accounts, which would eventually lead to his death at the age of 57 from liver problems.

@PugJesus alcohol is better than Islam, and it’s not even a religion!