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Yep. Ataturk was a huge westophile - one can see this in the policies themselves. Changing languages to be anglicized, hamfisting a separation of religion and state, etc. To be fair, I think a lot of it was him living in that final decline of the Ottoman Empire. It really had kind of rotted on the inside by the time their dissolution came, same with any large empire really. You could probably say what he did maintained the integrity of the Turkish state's core, but I don't know if anyone's done any actual analysis or historical what-ifs have been explored in that realm. Maybe impossible to do.