Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

When Mustafa Kemal took power over Turkey, he made many changes about the way the Turks would live their lives and how would they look like. He wanted the muslims to look like the europeans, he didn't want to dress like the traditional way a muslim would do. The traditional way a muslim would dress would be like dresses that looked like bedsheets wrapped around them with a funny looking hat that no had edges, that hat was called a fez.

Ataturk wanted the modern muslims to look like the europeans or americans, with shoes or boots on their feet, or pants accompanied by a shirt or tie with a jacket. He wanted to dress them like that so that the modern muslims would look like the people from european countries. Ataturk also made schools be secular, which made schools non-religious, only a small specific schools would focus a lot in religion.

He made many important changes in order to modernize the muslims on what they wore, how they speaked yet still kept the traditional muslim believes.