Atatürk's reforms

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Atatürk's reforms (Turkish: Atatürk İnkılapları or Atatürk Devrimleri, 'Atatürk's Revolution'), also referred to as the Turkish Revolution (Türk Devrimi), were a series of political, legal, religious, cultural, social, and economic policy changes, designed to transform the new Republic of Turkey into a secular, modern nation-state, implemented under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in accordance with the Kemalist framework. The principal political entity, the Republican People's Party (CHP), ruled Turkey as a one-party state from 1923 to 1945, apart from short-lived attempts to establish opposition parties. Following Atatürk's death in 1938, his successor İsmet İnönü took over the leadership and integrated further Kemalist reforms. İnönü's work was, however, stranded by World War II. The CHP eventually lost the elections to the Democratic Party in 1950, bringing the one-party period to an end. Central to the reforms was the belief that Turkish society had to modernize, which meant...

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