"Was Kemal Ataturk gay?"

This caused uproar in Turkey. The photograph shows him in a beach in Turkey, where he has an attitude that creates the impression that he was gay. The reference is accompanied by the view that Kemal may have been gay and has already passed and in other Turkish press causing a literal "earthquake" as Ataturk is known as one of the biggest taboos of modern Turkey. Turks have deified him to the extent that many other dictators such as Hitler, Mao, Stalin, would envy.

This view, that the founder of modern Turkey may have been gay and which was republished in Turkish newspaper Habertork, was initially denounced by judicial authorities, which ruled that the photo is legally covered. Of course, this first reaction of legal principles was more intense, because of objections of many factors that are adjacent in Kemalism, who ordered an investigation about the photo and against the press that reported that Ataturk may have been gay. On the other hand, those who posted the photo invoke the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, the provisions for free press and the abolition of censorship in force in the European Union.

The fact is that Ataturk never married despite the fact that at times he lived with various "admirers" and of course didn't have children, something that bothered many critics after his death. According to many biographers, Kemal avoided women and also had the terrible passion of alcoholism. His great fury against anything religious, which he considered contrary to the flow of history, was the result of his atheism , but for many, who lived close by, he was a man who gave great importance to the magic and superstitions affected by the "invisible forces".

His end was tragic and certainly did not reflect the historical position he was assigned later. He died drowned in alcohol and loneliness. Kemal was the "father" of the Turks, but actually became the "father" of non-Turks, the "father" of citizens with a new Turkish identity, but without an identity of a new Turkey. Maybe this is why he was helped so much by foreign powers to enforce and hit everything associated with the traditional Ottoman Empire with the known bloody toll of the great genocide of millions of Eastern Christians. Today, many years after his death, while Turkey is dominated by the Islamists, his "portrait" has begun to fade culminating perhaps with this news, which two decades ago wouldn't be invoked in any case.