Friday, February 13, 2009

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey


Mustafa kemal was born in 1881, he became a very important person for the people in turkey. when he was 35 years old he liberated two major provinces in eastern Turkey, he became in 1919 the leader of the Turkish emancipation. he did many changes and one of those were that he change schools and made them more secular. secular means the pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred.

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