Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal was a man of Turkey that fought for the country and served as the first ruler as a president of Turkey.
He wanted to modernize Turkey like in America and Europe. The thing that he didn't want was to lose the country religion. He still wanted to have Islam as a religion, but didn't want top be as Muslim as the other countries with Islam as their main religion. 
Mustafa Kemal didn't allow Fez as a show of ignorance to the other Islam Countries which was secular in because he wanted to make the people of Turkey were hats shoes, and other clothes as the Europeans did. He got them most of the same technology as the Europeans and the Americans had and Turkey now wants to be part of the European Union. Mustafa Kemal was later known as Ataturk for modernizing Turkey as Gandhi did for his country.

Secular- a doctrine that doesn't allow/permit something religious against a religion.

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