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By Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, Ataturk, a charismatic Turkish nationalist, wanted to create a Eurocentric, modern, homogeneous, secular Turkish nation. To achieve this, he had some problems with the status of Kurds, Greeks, and Armenians living in strategic regions and border areas in what he and his fellow Turkish nationalists considered the borders of modern Turkey. What did Ataturk do? He simply went to war and used ruthless war tactics to erase ...