Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and the Modernization of Turkey

secular- of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal
Mustafa Kemal modernized Turkey and made it more secular in a way that he let people practice their religion without any interruptions. They were allowed to follow their faith in any way that they wanted to. He said that " the new Turkish State is a state of the people and a state by the people." This means that Turkey was made for the people by the people. According to the article “Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - Social Reforms” it says that “To give his nation a modern outlook, Atatürk introduced many reforms: European hats replaced the fez; women stopped wearing the veil; all citizens took surnames; and the Islamic calendar gave way to the Western calendar. A vast transformation took place in the urban and rural life. It can be said that few nations have ever experienced anything comparable to the social change in Atatürk's Turkey.”