Journal Entry#24

A Person Who Has Made a Difference: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Ataturk is very important leader for Turkish people. He is the founder of the Turkish Republic. Also, he is my idol. He was born in 1881 and he died in 1938. He was a soldier and he fought for his country after the World War 1. Furthermore, he saved his country from occupier countries. He always wanted to raise Turkey to the level of other modern countries, so he worked on this area and he made a lot of projects for materializing his idea. He followed some steps and when he had finished one step, and then he implemented the other steps. First, 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 communicates with other country of Europe very easily now because we use the same type of systems. Moreover, he regulated to Turkish economy and he legislated for farm and stockbreeding because he wanted to reinforce the Turkish economy. Because after war Turkish economy was bad and he solved this problem. He established to modern time and he was an encouragement to farmers. Thirdly, he changed the alphabet from the Ottoman alphabet to the new Turkish alphabet. He made this change because he believed the Ottoman alphabet is very hard to learn and he wanted to bring new easy Turkish alphabet. Also all Europe was using this alphabet. He regulated 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 elections. The first time one country gave a selection chance for women. In addition, his life was published in Time magazine one of the biggest leader of last one hundred years. He was a soldier but he always preferred peace. He once said, “Peace at home, peace in the world”. This shows how important he is. In conclusion, he was a good solider, good politician, and he is a hero for the Turkish people.