After the WW1, Ottoman State lost its independence. One of the most important reasons was that Ottoman State couldn’t be able to improve itself and got weakened in time. Because Ottoman Sultans didn’t want to act this way or it was very limited.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was different. He grew up in today’s Greece. Balkan region was under the nationalism movement and also European nations aimed to improve themselves. So, while they improve, we all (Turks) lost power and independency. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a member of this generation, so he aimed to learn and to improve his country. He gained a vision – Powerful new Turkish state-. He was aware that he couldn’t do it only by military trophies. So, he directed to science and social facts. Education was the most important mode in order to improve a nation. Then science and nationalism – but not a racist way- became guide for this path. His goal was to raise Turkish nation to the level of civilizational world, maybe even higher than them. Turks was the most civilizational nation in the history so we should get it back.
Because of this reason, he prepared a development program for new Turkish State. Turkish society should be educated, the society should be civilized, Turkish society should question everything, they should rule themselves and democracy is the best way. We can list many things.
The culture of Turkish Republic developed with the Latin alphabet. Science is the most significant guide of the society. Not dictatorship, the democracy is the way to improve in civilized world. The appearance of Turkish society got better. Turkish Republic was one of the most important states in 30’s thanks to Turkish Revolution. Economy was on the top. Even 1 Turkish Lira was equal to 1 US dollar. Turkish Republic was one of the biggest export countries in 1930’s. Everything has changed after WW2.
Even tough, we have faced many disasters, we are here thanks to Ataturk and his Turkish revolution.
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There are two armies in the world; military and teachers
Education starts by loving children…..
The highest salary should be teachers’ salary so they can raise a generation that will take a country to the top…