The influence of kemal atatürk

Radical reforms that created the Turkish nation state

Atatürk's reforms (Turkish: Atatürk İnkılâpları or Atatürk Devrimleri) were a series of political, legal, religious, cultural, social, and economic policy changes, designed to convert the new Republic of Turkey into a secularnation-state, implemented under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in accordance with the Kemalist framework.

His political party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), ran Turkey as a one-party state and implemented these reforms, starting in 1923. After Atatürk's death in 1938, his successor İsmet İnönü continued the one-party rule and Kemalist style reforms until the CHP lost to the Democrat Party in Turkey's second multi-party election in 1950.^{[citation needed]}

Central to the reforms was the belief that Turkish society had to modernize, which meant implementing widespread reform affecting not only politics, but the economic, social, educational and legal sphere