"Why Ataturk's regime did not last long ?
M. Orhan Tarhan
September 15, 2008
Ataturk´s regime converted Ottoman Turks with 7 % literacy in 15 years to an independent democratic republic with much higher literacy, emancipated its women, and gave them the right to elect and be elected.
It changed its alphabet to a Latin alphabet, put its children in secular schools where modern science, technology, and philosophy were taught, and professed that the best guide in life is science. It also abolished the caliphate, closed all religious schools, outlawed the Shania part of the Koran and separated religion from state (Laicism). It built also a nucleus of a modern industry, in the shade of which private industry was expected to flourish. The aim was to bring the Turkish society to the level of Western countries. Yet this wonderful regime did not last more than 70 years after Ataturk´s death.. What was missing in it?"
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