Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Mustafa Kemal And The Modernization Of Turkey

- Mustafa Kemal aspired to freedom and equality to turkey, when he became leader he quoted that the new Turkish State is a state of the people and a state by the people. To give his nation a modern outlook, Atatürk introduced many reforms. European hats replaced the fez. Transformation took place in the urban and rural life. Its also said that few nations have ever experienced anything comparable to the social change in Atatürk's Turkey.
-secular-
pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred temporal.

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