Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey


Mustafa Kemal was a man who loved his country and wanted his people to be like the rest of the world and not to be seen as old world or behind on technology nd to find new traditions.He wanted his people to be more secular which means that people would be more interested to worldly items and not so connected to religon.He wanted his country to walk the road into becoming a superpower.He passed several lawsthat would make the process of modernizing and adapting to western culture eazier but the laws and rules may have been a little extreme.The rule banning the wearing of the fez hat seems meaningless but it was a deturant of dressing like that to the people and this definately had an affect onn the people of turkey and they knew that he wanted them to move foward.In the end Kemal was trying to help his people advance so they would not be left in the dust behind america and europe.

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