Bernard Lewis: "Pemerintahan Mustafa Kemal tentu saja otoriter, tetapi...

"Pemerintahan Mustafa Kemal tentu saja otoriter, tetapi dia memiliki pepatah yang sangat benar, saya tidak ingat kata-kata yang tepat, tetapi yang dia katakan adalah saya seorang diktator sehingga tidak akan ada lagi diktator di Turki, dan saya berpikir itu benar. Dia merasa bahwa ada perubahan tertentu yang perlu dilakukan. Dia ingin membuat perubahan itu, dia merasa itu penting."

--- Bernard Lewis

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.