对阿塔图尔克的纪念直到21世纪仍然为土耳其政治与社会的重要驵成部分。[12]土耳其几乎每座城市都有以他的名字命名的街道,在城市广场、学校与公共办公场所也常常见到他的雕像,后两者甚至还有他的肖像。阿塔图尔克在1933年的共和国十周年庆典上发表的演讲的中使用了该句话:“说我是土耳其人的人是多么的幸福啊(英语:How happy is the one who says I am a Turk)。”随后这句话在土耳其国内被广泛使用,人们也经常在他的雕像前看到这句话。尽管在2013-18年期间被删除,但他仍然是学生必读誓词(英语:Student Oath (Turkey))的一部分。[13]该誓言后来在2021年又再次被删除。[14]
人们有时会把阿塔图尔克的个人崇拜与努尔苏丹·纳扎尔巴耶夫与萨帕尔穆拉特·尼亚佐夫等中亚专制统治者的个人崇拜相提并论,[15]但是由于阿塔图尔克在土耳其进行了民主与进步的改革,而且他的大部分雕像都是在他去世之后才被建立起来的,两者之间实际上相差甚大。举例来说,在1950年代以前,土耳其货币上只会有现任总统的头像,但是时任总理阿德南·曼德列斯为了在政治上打击竞争对手伊斯麦特·伊诺努,他通过了一项让已故的阿塔图尔克再次成为货币上的头像之法律,并不让伊诺努的头像出现在货币上。[2]曼德列斯政府虽然反对阿塔图尔克的共和人民党(该党在议会中乃民主党(英语:Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1961))的反对党),但是最终其还是在1953年,在阿塔图尔克去世15年后,将后者的遗体迁入陵墓。[2]他还在1951年通过一项法律,将侮辱“阿塔图尔克的记忆”定为刑事犯罪。[2]
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Foreign Press on Cyprus, Volumes 10-11, Public Information Office, 1997 "It is the army's self-appointed role to maintain the secular character of a state that is 90 percent Muslim, but whose modern founder Kemal Ataturk forcibly wrenched into Westernization. The Ataturk cult of personality still towers over Turkey"
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