When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was struggling for the freedom, he faced with a fact: the economic dependency. Turkish nation was very poor. They had a few things to support the army. They didn’t have sufficient food and outfit. The outfit of the troops were so bad that it wasn’t suitable for the climate conditions. Even thousands of troops died without shooting any bullet in Sarıkamış region (Northeastern Anatolia). Because they were frozen while marching to the Russian territory due to the summer outfit. The weapons weren’t enough and they were old-fashioned. But the western allies were supporting the Greek army. They gave the Greek army modern weapons and planes. Greek army was dependent to UK for the war in Anatolia. We can list more of those examples.
Even before declaring republic, he made plans to solve this problem. All of the plans were based on the economic development of new Turkish State. All preparations were made in the independency war period. After the victory, all plans became true, and economy started to rise up. Atatürk stated that if the military triumphs hadn’t been supported with economic triumphs, the military triumphs wouldn’t have any meaning. So, the most important thing is to have economic independency for a country. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had experienced it from the first hand. He always stated that new Turkish Republic has a national economic basis.
Always Atatürk…