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What makes Ataturk remarkable was how he took what was "Islamic capital" of the world due to its nature of the Caliph and introduce a huge amount of secularism and modernisation without turning it anti-Islamic.
Especially with the genocide of Armenian and Assyrian Christians, the need to increase the religious freedom of individuals was necessary metamorphosis.
Every state "modernisation" is unique in its own way, but at the end of the day it must be built on a vision towards making people more than what they currently are.
This book just tells me there is a book on the formation of Turkey and its early years, that I want to read but this is not it.
It highlights all the points that I have interests in but not in a narrative that is quite engaging to me:
The break from the caliphate, the establishment of single party, its authoritarianism, the wresting with Islamic identity against Turkish identity, the secularism..
the adoption of a non-competitve foreign policy given its expansionist roots, the fight against Russian influence with communism while promoting state intervention to kick-start capitalism.
All the above points and more (populism, Republic government, nationalism) but in one or at most two works would be quite a blessing. Maybe I should research better, but if anyone can recommend. That would be nice. End.
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