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Turkey: Ataturk Documentary Stokes Culture War
BY NICHOLAS BIRCH
Can Dundar, a prominent filmmaker and journalist, is a darling of Turkey’s secularists. ... Or rather, he used to be before the release of his new documentary about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the soldier-statesman who founded secular, modern Turkey.
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Area: 780,580 sq km (301,383 sq mi)
Population: 68,893,918
Capital: Ankara
President: Abdullah Gul
Religion: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews)
Life Expectancy: 72.08 years
GDP per capita: $6,700
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