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by bogomipz 3357 days ago
>"What makes reddit and now HN think Ataturk was some sort of beacon of democracy?"

Because he abolished the Ottoman Sultanate that had ruled for nearly 500 years and established a secular democracy. He also gave women rights.

I don't think this is a fact in any way specific to HN or Reddit but rather to history itself.