Meghan’s Blog

Kemal Ataturk {Mestafa Kemal} Essay

Dear Elizibeth,

I was so happy to hear from you! Hope all is well with your family! Things have been going very well for me and my family since Kemal Aturk {Mestafa Kemal} started ruling our country her in Turkey. We call hims “the father of the Turks”. Did I ever tell you about him? He started ruling about 15 years ago. Kemal is our first President of the Turkish Republic. Before that he took a big part in the military that overthrew the Ottoman Salton in 1909. Kemal so far is the only turkish head of the military to get famous during a war! When he was younger he started out in the Young Turks, a group of young turks who have a lot of different opinions about how our country should be ruled. He used all his War times influence to group together a group of military soldiers that drove out the allied occupying forces out of turkey in the early 1920’s. He became the president of the Turkish Republic in 1923. My life in Turkey has changed since of the end of World War 1 under Ataturk, because now I can dress more casual! and I don’t have to wear horrid vial that itches so much! I feel a lot more comfortable now in my new clothes! Also Kemal encourages woman to have jobs now! I work now as a clerk in a local business! Also Kemal introduced everybody to an alphabet based on Roman alphabet used for western languages! Now all newspapers and books are printed in the roman alphabet! The children in my neighbr hood now, go to school in stead of getting home schooled! I think this is so great! And now this is the most exciting news of all…..Woman get the right to vote in local elections! Kemal said that he wants woman to have more say in what is going on in our country! Well I must go now, but I hope I hear from you soon! See ya!

Enclosed is a picture of Kemal Ataturk

Hope to hear from you soon,

-Meghan P.S, I got most of my resources from this site

http://www.turkishnews.com/DiscoverTurkey/who/ataturk/

above is the site where I got the picture of Kemal .

Filed in Uncategorized January 9th, 2007