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Outing Ataturk.(Letter to the Editor)
In "Gay Old Times?" (Dec. 27) Victor Davis Hanson writes that Alexander the Great "might even have often enjoyed male outlets in the manner of Frederick the Great or Kemal Ataturk." I respectfully ask what Mr. Hanson's source is for this offhand assertion about Ataturk.
I don't believe anything resembling this assertion appears anywhere in Ataturk: The Rebirth of a Nation by Patrick Balfour (1964). Andrew Mango's 1999 Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey is a little friendlier to the idea, though not by much, tracing it to a single remark made by Lloyd George to King George V in 1921. Mango dismisses the assertion as unsubstantiated, motivated by malice and a desire to shock the king. Several of Ataturk's contemporary enemies attacked him for being a congenital skirt-chaser, but only Lloyd George made this particular assertion, and only one time--unless Mr. Hanson knows better.
Lloyd George isn't exactly an unbiased source on Ataturk, either. It was he who egged the Greeks on to invade Turkey after the First World War, where they met defeat at the hands of ...
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