Mustafa Kemal was first a very brilliant commander. He was commander during the time in when Greek solders invaded Turkey. After this had happened, he became the 1st president of the modern Turkey. as he took over he changed a lot of laws and things and tired to be different. He created new laws, new religious courts and created new Legal system based on the European law. Those many new things that Kemal gained also granted women more freedom. Another huge difference that he did. Granted women to vote and get to hold public office. What i think was really weird to me was that he even set out rules about clothes. He said " a civilized, international dress is worthy and appropriate for our new nation. And we shall wear it. Boots and shoes on our feet, trousers on our legs." I think what he tired doing here was trying to make Turkey look good.
He even asked workers to like wear some special type of clothes to make them look like as if they are really working. He required his government workers to wear some kind of western style business suits and banned the fez. He did all this in order to make Turkey a modern country of Europe.
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