i'm glad these threads live for awhile so i actually end up checking them.
>>15919576>the word was first used by one of the more popular authors of the time in our literatureoh that's interesting actually, i never would've thought that Turkey of all places got its name from a piece of literature. it makes me wonder where other countries got their name from.
>Atatürkforgive me for prying, but is Atatürk as respected in Turkey as Western historians and anthropologists would have you believe? i've always wondered that, since it's hard to determine that from my worldview alone.
