Mustafa Kemal modernized Turkey and made it more secular. The word secular means denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. The Kemalist secularism meant the separation of state and religion. The religion was separated from educational, cultural, and legal affairs. It meant the independence of thought and of institutions. The Kemalist principle of secularism was not against religion, but it was against those who were in oppopsition to modernization.Religious faith was a matter of individual conscience.
Mustafas main goal was to give Turkey a new sense of dignity,equality, and happiness. Kemalism believed that only a republican government can best represent the wishes of the people.
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