WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Jomo Kenyatta
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Nelson Mandela
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Kemal Ataturk
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Anwar Sadat
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Detailed explanation-1: -Non-Turkish researchers, as well as some Turkish ones, insist that he was a religious skeptic and an agnostic, i.e. non-doctrinaire deist, maybe an atheist, or even anti-religious and anti-Islamic in general. However, other Turkish researchers claim he was a devout Muslim.
Detailed explanation-2: -The history of secularism in Turkey extends to the Tanzimat reforms of Ottoman Empire. The second peak in secularism occurred during the Second Constitutional Era. The current form was achieved by Atatürk’s Reforms.
Detailed explanation-3: -However, Atatürk’s nationalism aimed to shift the political legitimacy from autocracy (by the Ottoman dynasty), theocracy (based in the Ottoman caliphate), and feudalism (tribal leaders) to the active participation of its citizenry, the Turks. Kemalist social theory wanted to establish the value of Turkish citizenship.