I think calling Kemal Ataturk a fascist is too much-he was a populist authoritarian, like many other 20th century political leaders. While I think he did some good things for Turkey, I don't think it makes up for his attempt to utterly destroy Turkey's links to its past. Imagine if the US government switched English to Cyrillic (or another non-Latin alphabet) and eliminated all words of non-Germanic origin in favor of Germanic neologisms, so that Chaucer, Dickens, and Shakespeare were unreadable to anyone who didn't study "pre-reform English" for years in college, and you begin to understand the sheer damage Ataturk inflicted on Turkish culture.