Let us ask some questions, if you are in a country which is almost in wars for 100 years, and if you lost almost all educated and young people in these wars, if your country were about to be shared by French, UK, Greeks, Italians, Armenians, Kurds, Arabs, Russians, if all the big powers were looking your territory to share the oil reserves, if your government were trying to transfer all the power to UK, if your government had very high debt burden, if your country literacy rate were only 5 percent, if you have only a few doctors, engineers, matematicians etc, if you were almost importing everything and having no industry, can't even produce a pin, if you have a country only relying to the agriculture, if you don't have any entrepreneur because of your people always made war but trade were in the hand of the minorities, if you don't have any capital to invest, if the religiuos were too dominant in the society, religious people were the most strongest figures, if you can't print your money but rely on a foreign bank, if you don't have a central bank and a treasury, if you don't have the roads for much of the country, no car, rail, air, industry, if women has no right to speak or vote or even counted in the census, and sold like a good, what you could do? Ataturk is a leader of this circumstances, now give me any example of any leader lived in that kind of situation. Let us look what he did. First he started to educate his people by being first teacher, he gave right to elect to the women, he declared that "if the war is not an inevitable necessity it is a crime," he started to built roads with hands of his people there were no machines as today, he imported professors from abroad to give higher education for his people, he changed the letters from arabic to latin to make easier to learn, he shot down many troubled religious fractions, he first declared that most important war is now economic war, he establihed central bank, he started to communicate with all the neighbors of the country, it was contrary what greek people what said today, one of the best collegaus was Greek President Venizelos, best relations between two countries was at that time, he started to build railways, he changed the suits of people because he was thinking that suits also effects people's psychcology, he established two important institutions one for the history one for the language, he was believing that historians should be as objective as the ones who makes the history, he was trying to eliminate the dominance of foreign words from the Turkish, he was always travelled in the country to listen the people. He was the firm believer of the science, what he said "the most real quide is the science" today still creates very big disturbance among religious people. He introduced secular system in the government, what he belived that belief should be personal not instutional, no one should intermediate between man and God. Becasue of this revolutionary action many religious people became the enemy of him. In his governing term he tried to move to multipolitical party regime twice, but religious people immediately provoked the process, he just postponed the idea, because the sociecty were not ready, there were a significant risk of loosing the momentum and turning back to those scolastic periods. For armenians, if you really objective, you would know that it was in 1915 war, which means it was in the first world war, what we are talking about 1922-1938 period.
