SICKMAN OF EUROPE

Turkey or Asia Minor has been subject to some of the most savage tyrannies in the history of the world. The once sanctum sanctorum of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire; Turkey was vandalised time and again under various regimes like the Islamic forces of Central Asia, the Ottomans.

The invasions battered the country so much that it came to be known as the “sick man of Europe”. And it was only in 1923 that Turkey gained independence under Mustafa Kemal (better known as Ataturk) and, in the process, laid the foundations of its present day political structure. Not only this, Kemal revived Turkey from its misery as it was in the hands of the British and the French during World War I, and formulated radical social and economic reforms, which included the start of industrialization in the country. The anabolic process continued during the World War II as Ataturk’s successor, Ismet Inonu, not only kept the country away from the war, but also sowed the seeds for multiparty politics.

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