through a carefully calculated series of reforms in the 1920s and 1930s mustafa kemal ataturk attempted to move his people away from their ottoman and muslim past.the basic principles of six arrows of kemalism were populism, republicanism, nationalism, secularism, statism,and reformism.rejecting the idea of a multinational empire kemal aimed to produce a homogeneous nation state, expelling and killing armenians and greeks in the process.he then deposed the sultan and established a western type of authority.he abolished the caliphate, the central source of religious authority, ended the traditional education and religious ministries abolished the seperate religious schools and colleges, established a unified seculer system of public education, and did away with the religious courts that applied islamic law, replacing them with a new legal system based on the swiss civil code.he also replaced the traditional calender with the gregorian calender and formally disestablished islam as the state religion.emulating peter the great he prohibited the use of fez because it was a symbol of religious traditionalism, encouraged the people to wear hats, and decreed that turkish would be written in roman rather than arabic script.this latter reform was of fundamental importance.it made it virtually impossible for the generations educated in the roman script to acquire access to the vast bulk of traditional literature, it encouraged the learning of european languages and it greatly eased the problem of increasing literacy.having redefined the national, political, religious and cultural identy of the turkish people, kemal in the 1930s vigorously attempted to promote turkish economic development westernization went hand-in-hand with and was to be the means of modernization.
demiş ve sonucu da şöyle çıkarmış kendileri:atatürk bu kadar şey yaptı fakat kemalizmin ülkeye ne fayda getirdiği hala şüphelidir.
