Well let's be clear here, you live in a country that actually has a law prohibiting any insult to the memory of Ataturk, going so far as to ban books that are critical of Ataturk or discuss any controversial issue related to him. I understand that I am not Turkish but I don't believe Turkey is really impartial about his role in the Armenian genocide.
I don't believe he ordered the genocide, or even that he necessarily knew about the day to day of it, but Armenians do have a decent argument that he tolerated it and certainly emphasized atrocities against Turks and downplayed atrocities committed by Turks. I know I've read Armenian texts that assert that this is the root of present Turkish denial that the genocide ever happened.
Since the thread is not about Armenian genocide claims, I'll pass this argument. I could only say that it's not a subject you can solve with the claims or the denials of each sides. Hell, even, "the history science" is hardly a science when it comes to all this kind of highly political issues that full of nationalistic feelings in a religiously polarized world conjuncture. In my opinion, a real honest person, a historian or not, would get lost in all the claims and arguments of both sides before even being close to a healthy judgement about whether Turks did a genocide or not. Because it's not The Holocaust, it's certainly not clear. But people will just believe what they want to believe, like pro-PKK Kurds believe it in a heartbeat and Azeris reject it strongly.
Well let's be clear here, you live in a country that actually has a law prohibiting any insult to the memory of Ataturk, going so far as to ban books that are critical of Ataturk or discuss any controversial issue related to him.
Yes, there are stupid laws like those. But it's not the reality. I'll continue below.
For the record, I'm actually generally very pro-Ataturk because it is largely his foundational ideas that make Turkey an entirely unique country in the world. My point about Armenians was merely because, whether the OP realized this or not, starting a thread asking for Turkish opinions about Ataturk is basically like walking into the Vatican and asking for opinions about Jesus.
You would see with your own eyes that this statement is not true if only a very important part of Turkish people that are anti-Atatürk were also basketball fans like the Turkish posters here. Because then you would see how there is a strong and extensive hate for Atatürk amongst the Turks. But unfortunately I don't know many people that are both anti-Atatürk and NBA fans(let alone Jazz fans). So you won't see them here. Jazzyapma mentioned them as at least 20% but I'd say they are at least 35-40% percent if you don't think solely on Islamists.
For the ridiculous Atatürk laws, as a matter of fact, I was gonna mention those kind of stupid things if I had the time in my first post. First of all, you really can't understand Turkish state of mind and the political/governmental silliness of us without being a Turk or at least living in Turkey for a decent time. Even though those kind of laws are(we have even have laws about compulsory fedora wearing) like weird American laws in some states and are only on the paper for the most part, we also had far more serious and damaging laws than those, like banning Turban wearing, just for the sake of Kemalism and the fear of Sharia. So, think about what would millions of women and their relatives think about Atatürk and his followers that banned their freedoms of religion.
I'm not a Kemalist, not even a pro-Atatürk as much as you are, I'm certainly not a pro-Sharia, I'm not a Sunni/Alevi/Shia, but I'm just a regular person with mixed beliefs and opinions in a unique/weird country which is a system/equation with extremely many unknowns, so much so that, you cannot get a clear picture of it even when you want to think in terms of the just major political dispositions. Kemalism and Sheria may seem like the end points for the outsiders in this giant abstract mess but in fact it's not even close. Even pro-Hezbollahs or pro-Al-Qaedas and Pastafarians would show up and say hello.
Anyway, so you can believe me when I say, it's not the same to ask us(or at least me) about Atatürk and to ask Vatican people about Jesus. Actually every Turk in his/her life has to get through countless arguments and controversial theories about Atatürk, starting from the first school to the every corner of the daily life. I know I have experienced it and I know I still do it.