Why do Europeans gloat about Ataturk being white when they routinely justify the genocide of Balkan Turks and call them subhuman? Why is any surprise to you that they would be the ardent supporters of Turkish identity?
If this thread is any indication of the treatment Balkan Turks recieved historically then it really shouldn't be a surprise to Balkanoids and Gayreeks that he would found the modern Turkish identity.