https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/10/21/interview-austin-bay-on-ataturk/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:04:12 -0400<![CDATA[Col. Austin Bay, longtime contributor to PJM and the co-author of A Quick and Dirty Guide to War, has a new book out titled Ataturk, Lessons in Leadership from the Greatest General of the Ottoman Empire. As Austin says during our interview, &#8220;You can make the case that Ataturk was really the 20th century&#8217;s most successful revolutionary. It certainly wasn&#8217;t Vladimir Lenin, it wasn&#8217;t Mao Tse-tung, it wasn&#8217;t Ho Chí Minh. It wasn&#8217;t Gandhi. I think it was Ataturk. It&#8217;s not that his legacy is all settled inside contemporary Turkey, because there are moderate Islamists that are testing that secular legacy of Ataturk. But he certainly established what has grown into a modern state.&#8221;]]>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:03:43 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2011/10/21/interview-austin-bay-on-ataturk-n254775