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    U.S. Defense Secretary Hagel - "I admire Ataturk"

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/24952/us-defense-secretary-hagel-%E2%80%93-i-admire-ataturk.html
    14:40, March 29, 2013

    According to Hurriyet Daily News, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
    yesterday reaffirmed his admiration of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the
    founder of the Republic of Turkey, at his first Pentagon press
    conference.

    "Well, I'm glad to know my standing is significant in Turkey. But -
    and I admire the Turks in the government, and Ataturk and I have over
    the years noted Ataturk in different speeches I've given, not just in
    Turkey, but the United States. He did something that was very
    significant that has had a very important sustaining legacy in the
    world. And sometimes we -- we in the West don't fully appreciate what
    Ataturk did." Hagel said in response to a question.

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