Atatürk's reforms

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Atatürk's reforms were a sweeping series of political, social, cultural, and legal changes in early 20th-century Turkey that transformed the former Ottoman Empire into a secular, modern nation-state.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural reform program
legal reform program
political reform program
social reform program
aimsAt Westernization of institutions
creation of a nation-state
modernization of Turkey
reduction of religious influence in public life
secularization of the state
appliedIn Turkey
surface form: Republic of Turkey
country Turkey
effect creation of a secular legal framework in Turkey
decline of the Ottoman religious establishment
expansion of women's rights in Turkey
strengthening of central state authority
endTime late 1930s
follows dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
hasKeyFigure Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
hasPart abolition of the Caliphate
abolition of the Sultanate
adoption of Western-style civil dress codes
adoption of a secular civil code
adoption of the Gregorian calendar
adoption of the Latin alphabet in Turkish
adoption of the metric system
banning of religious orders (tariqas)
closure of religious courts
closure of religious schools
introduction of a new civil code based on the Swiss Civil Code
introduction of a new commercial code based on the German Commercial Code
introduction of a new penal code based on the Italian Penal Code
introduction of the Surname Law
proclamation of the Republic of Turkey
reform of the Turkish language
reform of the cultural life
reform of the economic system
reform of the education system
reform of the legal system
reform of the political system
replacement of Islamic law with secular law
unification of education
women's suffrage reforms
hasPrinciple nationalism
populism
reformism
republicanism
secularism
statism
implementedBy Grand National Assembly of Turkey
politicalIdeology Turkish nationalism
surface form: Kemalism
startTime 1923

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Turkish alphabet adoptedDuring Atatürk's reforms
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ideology Atatürk's reforms
this entity surface form: Kemalism
this entity surface form: Kemalism
Hat Law of 1925 partOf Atatürk's reforms
this entity surface form: Atatürk reforms
Hat Law of 1925 partOf Atatürk's reforms
this entity surface form: Kemalist modernization program