Our world faced various changes throughout history. Sometimes these changes attributed to disadvantages and affect negatively. Nevertheless, in many cases changes attributed to reforms. Such an example is the Kemalist reforms that set by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. He is one of the most famous and revolutionary people of the twentieth century. He was the first president and the one who found the modern Turkish republic. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk needed a very short time in order to create or change many laws and also reform outlooks and horizons of the humanity of a nation. Kemal Ataturk sometimes compared with national redeemer because he did many reforms and adopted various laws such as social, cultural and political. As it said in Turkey Beyond Nationalism
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The Mustafa Kemal’s principles and ideas together called Kemalism which in turn constitutes the official ideology of the state. Kemalism is designed to create a modern republican secular Turkish state out of the Ottoman Empire. The main principles of Kemalism were republicanism, nationalism, populism, state socialism, secularism, and revolutionism. It is well known that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk did lots of changes which gathered together and called the Kemalist reforms. There was a common opinion that Kemal’s reforms are unchallenged. The following paragraphs will be dedicated to reforms that changed Turk …show more content…
He focused on the Turkish language and history. The aim was to establish an extremely linguistic institution, the Turkish Language Association and Turkish Historical Society for research on Turkish language and history. After a few years Kemal adopted a law connected with surnames. His own example was one of the brightest examples of the new law. According to the new law Mustafa Kemal became Kemal Ataturk. One of the primary reforms accomplished by Kemal Ataturk was the improved condition of women in the Turkish republic. Kemal Ataturk started to support women's rights and became one of the strongest supporters. During his presidency, he did many positive changes for women. He promoted and maintained many rules and laws on behalf of the women living in Turkey. Mustafa Kemal tried to make equal the rights of males and females and in the period of 1930s, Turkish women eventually got the right to vote. This reform was one small step toward gender equality. Take into account the fact that during this period in many European developed countries females did not have the right of voting. Nonetheless, in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk established voting of women and we can claim that it was really huge accomplishment for them. Furthermore, parliament needed female delegates and in 1935, about 18 women became part of the parliament. Now year by year we see that the percentage of female political figures increase. As
The Mustafa Kemal’s principles and ideas together called Kemalism which in turn constitutes the official ideology of the state. Kemalism is designed to create a modern republican secular Turkish state out of the Ottoman Empire. The main principles of Kemalism were republicanism, nationalism, populism, state socialism, secularism, and revolutionism. It is well known that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk did lots of changes which gathered together and called the Kemalist reforms. There was a common opinion that Kemal’s reforms are unchallenged. The following paragraphs will be dedicated to reforms that changed Turk …show more content…
He focused on the Turkish language and history. The aim was to establish an extremely linguistic institution, the Turkish Language Association and Turkish Historical Society for research on Turkish language and history. After a few years Kemal adopted a law connected with surnames. His own example was one of the brightest examples of the new law. According to the new law Mustafa Kemal became Kemal Ataturk. One of the primary reforms accomplished by Kemal Ataturk was the improved condition of women in the Turkish republic. Kemal Ataturk started to support women's rights and became one of the strongest supporters. During his presidency, he did many positive changes for women. He promoted and maintained many rules and laws on behalf of the women living in Turkey. Mustafa Kemal tried to make equal the rights of males and females and in the period of 1930s, Turkish women eventually got the right to vote. This reform was one small step toward gender equality. Take into account the fact that during this period in many European developed countries females did not have the right of voting. Nonetheless, in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk established voting of women and we can claim that it was really huge accomplishment for them. Furthermore, parliament needed female delegates and in 1935, about 18 women became part of the parliament. Now year by year we see that the percentage of female political figures increase. As