Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

The ottoman empire was a huge kingdom, until World War 1, this was when the Ottoman empire lost most of its land. This was due to a lose to in World war 1. One man named, Mustafa Kemal is brought a new form of government. He made the Ottoman people join up and create a new country, and it known as Turkey. He wanted Turkey to be a non-secular government. He did this by convincing them that they needed a new government and his non-secular ways should be changed to make a better government. Secular is a government based non-religion and not following what it says, instead rule the government according to facts. Such examples are religious schools, they are non-secular. Another non-secular thing is any kind of religion. Out of this, women were able to vote and have more rights. Also, because of this, there economy and social relationships with other nations increased as well.