How Ataturk Made Turkey Secular | History Documentary

Ataturk changed Turkey in unimaginable ways. Upon gaining independence after WWI, he set about to vigorously modernise his country. Customs and traditions that had endured for centuries were gotten rid of so that Turkey could modernise in a similar way that European countries had. The most prominent reforms of Ataturk concerned the nation's relationship with Islam. A staunch advocate of secularism, Ataturk sought to relegate the role of religion to the private sphere.

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0:00 Intro
1:32 Republicanism
4:57 Populism
6:26 Laicism
9:44 Nationalism
13:14 Reformism
15:26 Statism

[nikola]

Reading about Ataturk, although he was our enemy in the First Balkan war (but later a very good friend of Yugoslavia and our king), this man had it all a good commander, a reformist, intelectual that left an impression he was a Hollywood actor. Truly one of the greatest and complete characters in history.

[alexhubble]

Ataturk is a great man. Said it before, will say it again. He had a very good idea of the institutions a modern - not western - nation needs. He knew that people cling to the old ways, the old ways have political power. Having basically saved the country in the war, he used all that prestige to drive the changes through - no-one can say no to Ataturk! He had to move fast because he knew it was only his prestige that can shift a place from feudal to modern in 20 years. He's a genius.

[biuhfqq]

Just yesterday my friend and I were talking about how a lot of youths in Turkey are very secular.

[zahradelprey]

Turks are very nationalistic… i find this strange, even those who are practicing muslims feel very strongly towards their “father”…in other parts of the muslim world, you wont really see this kind of nationalism amongst other muslims.

[Drumutsuadiye]

He is our father❤you are not turkish and normally u dont like him.bec he gave us freedom republic and everything.even after 1000 years turks will follow his father Atatürk! Know your place!

[gideonmoseri]

Ataturk is the greatest Turk after the Ottoman Empire. Without the leadership of Ataturk turkey would have been divided by the European forces but he proved them wrong.

[abansmith]

This guy was far above his time, even now not many countries are doing half the things he had done

[commieking]

Based Attaturk !
Respect to Turks from Morocco

[bulu]

Ata turk is one of the very few muslim leaders who are respected by non muslims.

[jasmineabdulla]

Turkey is a secular, progressive and liberal nation it will remain the same. All Thanks to all great Ataturk 👍 🙏 ❤❤❤

[Iordo]

Secular: not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.

[holkholkman]

As a Turk, I hate the ummatists who are hostile to the Turkish identity, linking the Turks only to the Ottoman Empire and the caliphate. Ottoman and caliphate are part of Turkish history. There were Turks before the Ottomans, and there were Turks before Islam. Today, there are Christian, atheist, deist, agnostic, Shiite, Sunni Turks. Atatürk is a great soldier who spent most of his life fighting for the Ottoman Empire. Turks respect great soldiers. Without Atatürk, there would be no Istanbul, Izmir and Thrace Turks today. Thanks to the Turkish war of independence he organized, we have such a beautiful state.

[CatnamedMittens]

"I do not leave any verses, any dogmas, nor any frozen and moulded principles as spiritual heritage. My spiritual heritage is science and reason."

Mustafa Kemal

[ozzy]

All Muslım World have to follow Atatürk, if they want to live with independent

İf you be secular

You will independent
You will have wealth
Your science knowledge will immediately increase

Your education system will get perfect

[supersetup]

We can die for Ataturk's revulation. He did hard works at his time. Turkiye is secular country. One day will go away someones but he never... There is something that those who live in Turkey and hate it do not know. They will not be able to show the same hatred in Afghanistan...

[CY-yedz]

There's a lot to say about Kemal Ataturk. Yet I will keep it in a few phrases. His efforts and vision transformed people of Türkiye from subjects to citizens, and the war-torn, completely exploited remnants of the empire, into a functioning country.

There are people in the Muslim world who, for ideological- religious dogmatic reasons, hate this great man.

Like any other great leader, Ataturk had his flaws, mistakes and shortcomings. However, Türkiye is different and more progressive than most Muslim-majority countries for the very reason that it started the forming 20th century with a leader like Ataturk.

[NP]

Thanks to Ataturk Turkey exists today.
They have every right to be nationalistic and proud of him.

[EsraYıldız-kk]

proud of Ataturk as a Turkish woman, we always follow his vision...

[ugurberke]

If you learn more about him, you can read Nutuk which is journal and which he noted what he experinced

[Yetomata]

He basically gaved us a choise to determine our own future just to later we found out it was not us alone and we just found out we were determining nothing at all this time.