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Turkish renaissance guided by Kemal Pasha revolutionised the Turkish life at many levels. Amplify.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, and the punitive Treaty of Sèvres (1920), set the stage for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to lead not merely a war of independence but a wholesale civilizational transformation of Turkish life within a single generation.

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  • Political Transformation
  • Secularism and Religious Reform
  • Legal Reform
  • Educational and Linguistic Reform
  • Social and Cultural Reform
  • Economic Transformation — Étatism
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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