Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a leader that relied on the public very much. The power of the public is always over every power. He always thought that a country could be able to develop with every member of public including women.
Actually, women have very important role in the society. They organize the family and society life, but they didn’t have any value in the society in the past due to the religious dictate. Ataturk was aware of this fact, so he desired women to join the social life. Not only in Turkiye, and women also didn’t have the value in western countries. Even in Europe, the women didn’t have right to vote in 20’s and 30’s. Ataturk prepared a bill that gave this right to Turkish women. Turkish women were having right to vote and to be voted in small villages in 1930. After that development, Turkish women had the right of voting and to be voted by a law in 1934.
We can also state that he wanted the women to participate social and military life. That’s why, he had his adopted daughters raised as pilot and professors. They were also appointing as judge or engineer in every stage.
Turkish Revolution is one of the first moves that civilization was shaped in that era. All of those moves became true thanks to ATATURK.
Always Ataturk…