“We learn a lot of lies, which is called history in Turkey,” he said. “They worship Atatürk, he’s a kind of superman. He cannot do anything wrong. Criticism about Atatürk is against the law. Some countries you can see only one man’s statue. In Turkey, it’s Atatürk. In Iraq, it was Saddam. In North Korea, it’s Kim Jong. If there’s only one kind of statue in a country, it means that country has a problem. The only goal of our education is to create obedient citizens who worship Atatürk and Kemalism.”
