INTL ST 165 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Young Ottomans, Israelites, Planned Economy
3 Mar 2018
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List of essay questions: kemal ataturk carried out policies that distanced the new turkish republic of the 1920s from the ottoman past. Ataturk to do so: kemal ataturk shifted away from islam as the foundation of the state, and elevated the. Turkish identity became the touchstone of the new state. Ataturk claimed that being turk was superior to being any other nationality. To even further the new turkish republic from its ottoman past, ataturk claimed the superiority of turkish over arabic: moreover, he commissioned the translation of the quran into turkish and had it read publicly. He created legislation that made obligatory the issuing of the call to prayer in. Turkish instead of arabic: ataturk did all this to distance the new republic from the ottoman empire. He wanted to make distinct the turkish cultural heritage from the ottoman one.
