Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal made Turkey more modernized and secular. To bring his people closer the modernization of the other European countries he scarified his country’s religion. He told his people that their religious ways of dress were uncivil. Tried to make is people less religious or secular.
He told his people to change the way they dressed. He abolished the wearing of the fez. The fez was a hat that the people wore as part of there religion. He told them to wear hats that were more like the western hats of Europe and the Americas. He was disgusted that the Turkish culture was not their own but more of a mixture of several different cultures.