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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (view source)
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, 21:03, February 8, 2019→Biography: This is a thing of the past. Turkey ranks 110th among 160 countries in The Economist's democracy index.
==Biography==
==Biography==
Atatürk deposed the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 and became the first President of Turkey in 1923. It is estimated that most of Turks are [[Muslim]] (and most of them are conservative), but Atatürk established a [[secular]] rule based on a strong military. He abolished the [[sharia law]] and gave women the right to vote and hold government positions. As a result of his efforts, Turkey is the only Muslim country to independently hold democratic elections.
Atatürk deposed the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 and became the first President of Turkey in 1923. It is estimated that most of Turks are [[Muslim]] (and most of them are conservative), but Atatürk established a [[secular]] rule based on a strong military. He abolished the [[sharia law]] and gave women the right to vote and hold government positions. As a result of his efforts, Turkey was the only Muslim country to independently hold democratic elections.
[[Samuel Huntington]] defines "Kemalism" as a response to attempts at "reconciliation of [[Islam]] and [[Modernization|modernity]]", or to modernise Islam without Westernization.
[[Samuel Huntington]] defines "Kemalism" as a response to attempts at "reconciliation of [[Islam]] and [[Modernization|modernity]]", or to modernise Islam without Westernization.