Welcome to Atatürk Society of America
Our new media section, here you will find links to speeches, editorials and interviews made by our members, benefactors and supporters of ASA.
Please use the links below:
Voice of Atatürk:
Online magazine (will be available soon)
Speeches:
• Equal Rights for Women -Metin Camcigil, President of ASA
• The Contribution of Turkish Women to the Modernization of Turkey -Judy Ayyildiz
• Archaic Dogma or Rational Progress -Metin Camcigil, President of ASA
• Turkey’s choice in education-Metin Camcigil, President of ASA
• Understanding Kemalism-Metin Camcigil, President of ASA
• When Kemalist Reforms Become Turkish Reforms-Metin Camcigil, President of ASA
• Militant Islam and Atatürk’s political philosophy-Metin Camcigil, President of ASA
• Honoring the Lausanne Treaty- Metin Camcigil, President of ASA
• "Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: The Liberator, The Nation-Builder and The Statesman" Remarks by Amb. Baki Ilkin
• The Root of Terrorism-M. Orhan Tarhan, Member, ASA Board of Trustees
• Misunderstanding Turkey-Andrew Mango
• Atatürk in His Lifetime and Today- Dr. Andrew Mango
• Dr. Pipes’ views on Islamic Terrorism and Turkey
• Kemal Atatürk by Prof. Carl Leiden
• Atatürk and an American Journalist- Ayse Cebesoy Sarialp
• Atatürk-Bethoven-Einstein: by Prof. Behram Kursunoglu
• Atatürk's Prophesies:by Prof. Mahmut Esat Ozan
• Islam and Secularism in Contemporary Turkey:- by Prof. Dr. Suna Kili
• Atatürk, The Psychology of the Man - by Dr. Engin Inel Holmstrom
• Is Democracy inviting back autocracy in Turkey- by Mehmet Metin
• Turkey and New Zealand - by Ayse Cebesoy Sarialp
• The Making of U.S. Foreign Policy on Turkey by Alan Makovsky
• Atatürk's Policy Towards Great Powers: Principles and Guidelines by Aryeh Shmuelevitz
• Atatürk Today: Acceptance Speech by Andrew Mango
• The Concepts of the Turkish Model and the Greater Middle East Initiative-Metin Camcigil, President of ASA
• In Celebration May 19 2004, Youth Day Speech by Abigail Bowman
• In Celebration May 19 2004, Youth Day Speech by Cathleen Boivin
• In celebration May 19, 2005 Youth Day Speech by Senator Chuck Hagel
• In celebration May 19, 2006 Ataturk's 125th Birthday speech by Speaker Newt Gingrich
• In celebration May 19, 2006 Ataturk's 125th Birthday speech by New Zealand Ambassador Roy Ferguson
Editorials: by M. Orhan Tarhan
Editorials: by M. Orhan Tarhan
• Turkey's Struggle to get in the EU
• Atatürk, The Leader, The Democrat
• Atatürk Secularism and Democracy Award of 1997
• Should Government Teach Religion?
• The Principles of Atatürk
• How Can We Help Preserving Secularism In Turkey?
• The Growing Importance of Atatürk
• Atatürk's Blueprint for Turkey
Interviews:
• Building Turkey’s Secular Future Through One Literate Girl at a Time by Filiz Odabas-Geldiay
• A friend of Atatürk has been honored by Filiz Odabas-Geldiay
Memories:
• Driving for Atatürk
Letters:
• A letter to the Turkish President A. Necdet Sezer (in Turkish)
• Re: The article by Guy Chazan in the WSJ 4/24/2003 edition
• Public Diplomacy and Terrorism (Letter sent to Rep. Henry Hyde, Chairman of the U.S. House International Relations Committee)
• Letter to NY Times
• Letter to EU
• Letter to NY Times