Re: The deed is done!
I dont think that we will have any peace in the Middle East until there is a version of (Mustafa Kemals) commonly called "Atatürk"that title was bestowed on him in 1934 by their national parliament, it means (Father of the Turks).
He might be in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or any of the other despotic Countrys of the area, but it will have to come from within, not imposed by the outside.
Turkey ideology is called "Kemalism", but most of the Turks refer to it as "Atatürkism". Its a republican form of government not unlike our own. The New Turkey's ideology was, and remains, "Kemalism", later known as "Atatürkism". Its basic principles stress the republican form of government representing the power of electorate, secular administration, nationalism, and mixed economy with state participation in many of the vital sectors, and modernization.
In his quest to bring Turkey into the twentieth century, he formed a truly secular system taking it from an outmoded semi caliph system, a legacy of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. He managed to do this in four years, between 1926 and 1930; the Turkish Republic achieved a legal transformation, which might have required decades in most other countries.
Atatürkism introduced to Turkey the process of parliamentary and participatory democracy. It is the first Moslem nation to become a Republic, Religious laws were abolished, and a secular system of jurisprudence introduced. When he modernized turkey into a secular government education played a major role. He made religious faith a matter of individual conscience; he made it a true secular system
