“Foreign Policy” magazine published a list of dictators wearing mustache. The founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Ataturk was also included in the list.

“The soaring mustache Ataturk wore as a young army captain was popular in the Ottoman era, modeled on the grooming style of Kaiser Wilhelm II, which reflected the influence of German culture on the Turkish intelligentsia of the period. But by the time Ataturk took office as the autocratic ruler of the new Republic of Turkey in 1923, his mustache had been pared back to a conservative bristle; as he guided Turkey toward economic and political liberalization in the years that followed he shaved it off entirely, as a symbolic example of Turkey leaving behind its Ottoman past in favor of a modern future,” the magazine reads.

Turkish mass media considered the publication an insult, as Hitler was also included in the list.