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    Why did Kemal Ataturk remake Turkey into a secular state?

    Question #126095. Asked by george48. (Jun 02 12 8:06 PM)


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    He believed that Turkey needed to do this to become more modernized and keep up economically, politically and culturally.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk%27s_Reforms

    Jun 02 12, 9:46 PM
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    The basic principles of Kemalism are the so called "six arrows": republicanism, nationalism, statism, populism, laïcité and revolutionism.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_People%27s_Party_%28Turkey%29

    Jun 05 12, 5:33 AM


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