Kemalism

The Six Arrows

Kemalism (Turkish: Kemalizm, also archaically Kamâlizm[1]), also known as Atatürkism (Turkish: Atatürkçülük, Atatürkçü düşünce), or The Six Arrows (Turkish: Altı Ok), is the founding and official ideology of the Republic of Turkey based on the ideas and legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[2]

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,[3] 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. ^ Cleveland, William L., and Martin P. Bunton. A History of the Modern Middle East. Boulder: Westview, 2013.

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