“The Republic of Turkey cannot be a country of sheikhs, dervishes, and disciples. The truest, most real order is the order of civilisation.”

—  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

As quoted in Atatürk'ün Söylev ve Demeçleri, Volume II, p. 215

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