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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk enjoying some of the benefits of being president of the Turkish Republic, Turkiye, 1930
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Idk, I feel like anyone who had power in Türkiye up until the 70's at least had some culpability. If it wasn't the Armenians it was the Greeks or Jews. Was a rough time and place to be anything but ethnically/religiously turk.
You're not wrong about having some culpability in the course of events - certainly Ataturk engaged in the same linguistic nationalism and marginalization of Kurds that later Turkish governments would escalate (and, as mentioned, in the last year of his life did escalate) - but other than the population exchanges with Greece at the end of the Turkish War of Independence, I would regard Ataturk's personal involvement, as a leader, in ethnic cleansing to be marginal at most.