Kemalism

The Six Arrows

Kemalism (Turkish: Kemalizm, also archaically Kamâlizm)[1] or Atatürkism (Turkish: Atatürkçülük) is a political ideology based on the ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey.[2][3] Its symbol is the Six Arrows (Turkish: Altı Ok) and is currently one of the two main ideologies of Turkey alongside Erdoğanism.

Atatürk's Turkey was defined by sweeping political, social, cultural, and religious reforms designed to separate the Republican state from its Ottoman predecessor and embrace a Western-style lifestyle,[4] including the establishment of secularism/laicism, state support of the sciences, gender equality, economic statism and more. Most of those policies were first introduced to and implemented in Turkey during Atatürk's presidency through his reforms.

  1. ^ Kamâlizm (1936) by Mehmet Şeref Aykut
  2. ^ Eric J. Zurcher, Turkey: A Modern History. New York, J.B. Tauris & Co ltd. page 181
  3. ^ Yazıcı, Berna (October 2001). ""Discovering Our Past": Are "We" Breaking Taboos? Reconstructing Atatürkism and the Past in Contemporary Turkey". New Perspectives on Turkey. 25: 1–30. doi:10.1017/S0896634600003587. ISSN 0896-6346.
  4. ^ Cleveland, William L., and Martin P. Bunton. A History of the Modern Middle East. Boulder: Westview, 2013.

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