Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Journal Entry #3

A Person Who Has Made a Difference: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Ataturk is very important leader for Turkish people. He is founder of the Turkish Republic.Also ,he is my idol . He was born in 1881 and he died in 1938. He was soldier and he fought for his country after the World War 1 and he saved his country from occupier countries. He always wanted to raise Turkey to the level of modern countries so he worked on this area and he made a lot of project for materializing of his idea. He followed some steps and when he had finished one step than, he implemented other steps. Firstly ,he started to change of political system and he brought a new system . It is called democracy. He was first president of this system. Secondly , he made a lot of reforms . For example he changed clothes , family names , calendar , hours , measures and he brought modern type of systems.Turkey communicate to other country of Europe very easily now because we use same type of systems. Secondly , he regulated to Turkish economy and he legislated for farm and stockbreeding because he wanted to reinforce Turkish economy. Because after war Turkish economy were bad and he solved this problem. He established to modern time and he was encouragement to farmers. Thirdly ,he changed alphabet from Ottoman alphabet to new Turkish alphabet . He made this changing because he believed ottoman alphabet is very hard to learn and he wanted to bring new easy Turkish alphabet also all Europe were using this alphabet. He regulated to university education and he opened a lot of universities. Because he always believed to Turkish generation and he thought generation will increase to Turkey over the modern countries. Also he gave a chance for women to attend to selection. The first time one country gave a selection chance for woman’s. He was good solider , good politican and he is hero for Turkish people. His life was published in Time journal as a biggest leader of last one hundred years. He was a soldier but he always preferred to peace. I want to finish my paragraph with his famous words. “Peace at home , peace in the world “.

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