Turkish History 2
This week our main object is to learn Turkish history. So we picked up from where we left from the last semester. This class Gokhan taught us the modern history of Turkish. And how the Turkish languages changed as a result of the development of history. In modern history, Turkey has always been a place full of warfare. Gokhan introduced Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. His a one of the most influential revolutionaries in the world. His status in Turkish people’s mind is like Chairman Mao in Chinese people’s heart. He was born in Selianik in 1881. He overthrew the Ottoman Empire successfully and founded the Republic of Turkey. He played an important role in the Independence War and the Battle of Gallipoli. And more importantly, after he ruled Turkey, he did not turn into a dictator. Rather, he made a lot of policies to make the people better off. His reforms were followed by a series of political, legal, religious, cultural, social and economic policy changes. He separated the state and religion, which is a bold and wise move. And he moved the new capital to Ankara, created the multi-party system to ensure democracy. Besides, in order to increase the literacy rate, he adopted a new alphabet system in 1928, which is what we learn right now. Back then, over a night, everybody became illiterate. But these policies made Turkey more connected to the rest of the world, and as a positive result, the current literacy rate is 94.1%. That is a huge improvement.
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