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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is a Turkish Muslim. He was mostly involved in religion and politics. Mustafa Kemal wanted to modernized the religion, Islam in Turkey. Mustafa didn't want to wear the traditional stuff that Muslims wore in the Middle East. He believed that religion is religion, you don't have to wear a specific thing. He felt that since they're in Europe, they wanted themselves to blend in the European style. Like he wanted them to wear such things, like jackets, hats, shoes, pants, and etc. that Europeans wore at that time, since Turkey is part of Europe. 


Europe back then became secular, and some people wanted to keep the traditional clothing in their religion, Islam. But Mustafa Kemal thought that secular clothing shouldn't get in the way of religion. 

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