Monday, February 12, 2007

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal modernized Turkey by trying to make them change their way of living. He said that they should try and be like the other people in the world. He told them they should wear ties and shirts and not the little fez they wear. The fez was not international he would say. He wanted the people from Turkey to wear hats. Also he wanted women to stop wearing the cloth in their head. The cloth would cover their hair. He wanted Turkey to change into a modern country.
Secular means worldly more than spiritual.

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