Ataturk's Secularization Reforms: A Major Step in Turkey's.
Turkish Reform Under Mustafa “Ataturk” Kemal: A Review on the Six Arrows of Kemalism In the aftermath of World War I, the once great Ottoman Empire was left in shambles. After having lost almost all of the empire’s territory to European mandates in 1918, what little they had left became occupied by Allied troops. In order to return the.
The three changes that came About in Turkey as a result of Ataturk's reforms were; 1. Many Arabic elements were eliminated from the Turkish language which was now in the roman alphabet 2.
In 1924, Ataturk introduced the parliamentary system to the nation, and in a 4-5 year period, he changed and modernized the whole law system. In creating the new constitution, secularism played an important role for the establishment of the new governmental and educational institutions. Ataturk always considered religion as an individual's choice, so he created a secular system, in which.
The Kemalist reforms brought about a revolutionary change in the status of women through the adoption of Western codes of law in Turkey, in particular the Swiss Civil Code. Moreover, women received the right to vote in 1934. Ataturk stated on a number of occasions that the true rulers of Turkey were the peasants. This was actually a goal rather than a reality in Turkey. In fact, in the.
Since then, Ataturk's 15-year rule was marked by a series of radical political and social reforms that transformed Turkey into a new era of modernization w ith civil and political equality for.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died November 10, 1938 at the age of 57 (born May 19, 1881). He was the founder and first president of the modern nation of Turkey. A large mausoleum was built in Ankara to.
Excerpt from Research Proposal: Kemal Ataturk Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey and its first elected president, was born as Mustafa on March 12, 1881 in Salonika or Thessaloniki, in Greece which was then under the Ottoman Empire.