When an earthquake toppled a school in eastern Turkey last year, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government opened a new one at the same site, with one difference. It was no longer named after Turkey's founder and secular hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. A smiling Erdogan cut a red ribbon and posed for pictures in front of the elementary school, now named after his late mother, Tenzile. A week later on Oct. 29, police used tear gas and water cannons against opposition supporters marching to Ataturk's mausoleum in Ankara to celebrate the republic's 89th anniversary. Many admirers of Ataturk say the way of life he enshrined is at peril under the Islamist-rooted Erdogan. Defenders of Turkey's...
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