Ataturk’s TurkeyAtaturk’s Turkey

Mr. BachHudson High School

Accelerated World History

The Breakup of the Ottoman The Breakup of the Ottoman EmpireEmpire

A New Leader for TurkeyA New Leader for Turkey

•Mustafa Kemal–Popular war hero•Led the great stand at Gallipoli

•Turned back the Greek invasion after WWI The Father of the Turks

Turkey Will Be a Turkey Will Be a RepublicRepublic• End of the Ottoman

Sultanate• End of the Sunni

Caliphate

Kemalism = SecularismKemalism = Secularism• Separation of Mosque

and State• European Legal System• Women’s Rights• Industrialization (i.e.

Westernization)• Religious dress banned

in public places• Public Education with

a new Westernized Turkish alphabet

Opening the Ankara Museum

of Fine Arts

Female Members

of the Turkish

Parliament

We are Western – No You’re We are Western – No You’re Not!Not!

• European Union Entry?– 99% Muslim– Capital Punishment– Article 301

• A Republic of Safeguards– Turkish Military

• Kurdish Issue

Need to reassure

country due to wife’s wardrobe