Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal modernized Turkey by making laws about how there people dressed. He banned people from wearing the fez on their head. He also made it illegal on wearing the robes, the people now had to dress more European. They now had to wear regular shirts and pants.

Mustafa Kemal also made Turkey more Secular. Secular is of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations. He did this by the separation of religion from educational, cultural and legal affairs. That was independence of thought and independence of dominance of religions.

The Kemalist principle of secularism did not go agaisnt atheism. It was not an anti-God principle. It was a rationalist, anti-clerical secularism. The Kemalist principle of secularism was not against an enlightened which Islam was opposed to modernization but against an Islam