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Mehmet Saffet (Arın) Engin, in an article in Ülkü magazine, after stating that a nationalist society attaches importance to solidarity, listed elements such as history, language, ideals and unity of interest as elements of solidarity. Saffet Engin includes blood union in this group. Saffet Engin shows a racist tendency by referring to the superiority of the Turkish race, by considering the blood factor among the unifying factors, and by including the concept of race rather than nation in some of his views.
Saffet Engin, who described Atatürk as the Great Genius and hailed him as the creator of the Turkish race at the beginning of his book in which he analyzed the Kemalist revolution, states in another chapter of a book he wrote that there was very little racial mixing in Anatolia. He claims that only 5.5% of dolichocephalic elements are encountered in anthropological researches in Anatolia and that a clean race type is dominant. Although he states that the concept of nation is not limited to race, Saffet Engin, who believes that racial superiority is a fact, argues that the dominant race also gives the nation its character. Approaching the subject from this perspective, Saffet Engin also claims that it has been scientifically proven that the Turkish character cannot be compared with any other nation. As can be seen, Saffet Engin, who does not exclude the concept of race in the definition of nation, speaks easily of racial superiority. Although this is not an approach that dominates both his own works and the general idea of the period, the presence of these racist elements in his various writings differentiates Saffet Engin's stance.
=== [[File: ML.png]] Marxist-Leninist Kemalism / Far-left Kemalism [[File:Orthlen.png]] ===
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniz_Gezmiş Deniz Gezmiş] stated that he was a Marxist-socialist and Kemalist as a political activist.
The first person to talk about this issue was his close friend Uluç Gürkan. Uluç Gürkan, in an interview with Işık Kansu from Cumhuriyet newspaper, said the following: '''“Deniz used to describe himself as a 'Marxist-Kemalist''''. He used to say, 'You are a left Kemalist'". (Cumhuriyet Newspaper, 8 November 1998, p. 8).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Çalışlar Oral Çalışlar], in an article about the communist movements he was involved in, said:
We prefer to say "Mustafa Kemal" and our ideal photograph is the one that is the heart of the National Struggle. We call our militant youth struggle the "Second National Liberation War".
The education we received and the preferences of our families led us to raise us with Kemalist ideology. This is what Kemalism teaches us: “People are reactionary. The military-civil intellectual group is progressive. It is necessary to intervene with authoritarian methods from above so that they can dedicate this backward society to themselves. The one-party rule is very useful in this regard.”
Of course, we were also embracing the rising "socialism" in the world... One day, Deniz Gezmiş and I left the Turkish National Youth Organization building in Tünel. At the beginning of the street, we stopped in front of Foto Sureyya, where Ataturk's photographs were exhibited in its window. Deniz said, "We are Kemalists." Then I, "aren't we Socialists?" said. '''I did not find it strange that Deniz said 'We are both socialists and Kemalists'.'''
In other words, Deniz Gezmiş called himself "both Kemalist and socialist" in another place.
However, this conceptualization is highly controversial among communists, and some argue that Deniz Gezmiş was simply a communist.
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