“New Turkish letters” — 🇹🇷 Turkish cartoon from 1928 showing Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, comically large pen in hand, standing over a heap of old Ottoman Arabic letters. Behind him, Latin letters in the halo around the rising sun spell out “New Turkish letters”. 
The cartoon was published at the peak of Atatürk’s reforms, a period through the 1920s and 30s during which Atatürk attempted to reshape the young Republic of Turkey into a modern and secular nation state
https://twitter.com/propagandopolis/status/1297476289301970945?s=20
The switch from the Perso-Arabic to the Latin script – along with many subsequent campaigns, such as a general purge of Persian and Arabic loan words in a bid to purify the Turkish language – was among the most famous and consequential of Atatürk’s reforms.
Atatürk was intimately involved with the reforms, visiting cities and towns across the country, introducing and encouraging the use of the new alphabet.
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