DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST
DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN MIDDLE EAST
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a modern and secular state
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an imperialist power in Africa and Asia
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a communist country allied with the Soviet Union
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a theocratic country with laws based on the Qur’an (Koran)
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Detailed explanation-1: -He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism.
Detailed explanation-2: -The founder of the modern Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s achievement was to amplify this common ground and put the country on a fast track of reforms, now known as Atatürk’s Reforms. Their first act was to give the Turkish nation the right to exercise popular sovereignty via representative democracy.
Detailed explanation-3: -The adoption of the Latin script and the purging of foreign loan words was part of Atatürk’s program of modernization. The two important features were sought, which were the democratization and activate secularism. Turkish had been written using a Turkish form of the Perso-Arabic script for a thousand years.
Detailed explanation-4: -Turkey is officially a secular country with no official religion since the constitutional amendment in 1928, which was later strengthened and entrenched with wider appliance of laicism by founder Atatürk during the mid ‘30s, all being in-part with the series’ of Atatürk’s Reforms.