Portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
From history

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

President of Turkey, 1923 to 1938

Founded modern Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, abolished the caliphate, secularized the law and adopted the Latin alphabet under one-party rule.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly progressive on culture, strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority and strongly nationalist on nation.

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Where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sits on eight dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this leader's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional

Leaders most like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Akbar Mughal Emperor, 1556 to 160579%Peter the Great Tsar of Russia, 1682 to 172571%Cyrus the Great Founder of the Persian Empire, c. 559 to 530 BCE69%Abraham Lincoln US President, 1861 to 186569%Sun Yat-sen Founding leader of the Republic of China, 191269%Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India, 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 198468%

Leaders furthest from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mahatma Gandhi Leader of the Indian independence movement7%Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil, 2019 to 202224%Javier Milei President of Argentina, 2023 to present25%

Political views closest to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

KemalismTurkey's founding ideology of secular, nationalist and state-led modernization.94%Anti-colonial nationalismFuses independence struggles with economic self-reliance and national dignity.63%Economic nationalismUses tariffs, subsidies and industrial policy to protect and grow domestic industry.62%

Percentages show how close two profiles are across all eight dimensions. Including a person here is for historical study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.