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During the opening of the Ataturk Museum Palace, where Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, lived for 11 years in Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan displayed a picture of Ataturk taken in Tripoli in 1912.

Erdogan responded to critics of his forces entering #Libya, saying to Turkish writer and historian Murad Merkdji, who was accompanying him when he displayed the picture: "These people, Mr. Murad, are telling us why we are going to Libya? They should look at this picture to know why we are going to Libya. So why did he go there?"

He continued by saying, "They are still talking, but he (Ataturk) was one of the main factors in establishing the state in Tripoli."
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