Turkey's Kemalists see secularist legacy under threat

By Humeyra Pamuk and Gulsen Solaker ANKARA (Reuters) - For decades his picture dominated Turkey, piercing blue eyes staring from hoardings, keeping watch over city streets and army barracks. Schoolyards echoed every morning to his oath: "Happy is he who can say 'I am a Turk!'" Now that oath rings out no more and the image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the secular republic, seems for some ...

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