AI Summary & Key Takeaways
AI InsightIn that time, love and trust that Tekirdağ’s people showed towards to Ghazi and sincerity in learning Turkish Alphabet, increased Ghazi’s perseverance and courage about realization of Letter Alphabet.
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Abstract
The purpose of Turkish Revolution was to provide the newly founded Turkish Government a national structure in the political, economical, cultural and social sphere. Because of the Ottoman Empire’s Pan-Islamic state structure, Turkish people was forced to use Ottoman Turkish which was a written language that did not reflect their own language. Although it was understood in Tanzimat Period that Ottoman Turkish was complicated Turkish people’s literacy, none of the statesmen dared to accept Latin alphabet because to change Ottoman Turkish that was accepted as a written language and to accept Latin alphabet were perceived as offensive to traditions and language. Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, who was aware of the fact that it was vitally necessary for the Turkish nation to regain their own language, history and culture in order to reach in order to reach modernity. After he set up a new political form of Turkish State, he took action to give Turkish society’s own national culture. The first step was the realization of Letter Revolution in the struggle of gaining national culture of Turkish Nation and returning the actual identity of Turkish Nation. To realize it in a short period, he went to blackboard on his own; he taught to teachers, scientists and the members of Parliament; he examined them and emboldened them about that situation. As each revolution he carried out, he took great support from the press about being adopted Turkish Alphabet. Besides those, he went to country trip to adopt new letters to Turkish people. Tekirdağ was the first place where he went for that aim. Tekirdağ which was Ghazi Mustafa Kemal’s first commander of military division, took the first city title as Ghazi’s going to board as a teacher on 23rd august 1928. In that time, love and trust that Tekirdağ’s people showed towards to Ghazi and sincerity in learning Turkish Alphabet, increased Ghazi’s perseverance and courage about realization of Letter Alphabet.
Özet
Türk inkılâbının amacı, yeni kurulan Türk devletine siyasal, ekonomik, kültürel ve