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Ataturk film draws Turkish crowds, and controversy (AP)

 
AP - A documentary that portrays the revered founder of modern Turkey as a lonely womanizer with a weakness for alcohol and cigarettes is drawing massive crowds but outraging hardline followers of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secular tradition. (link)

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