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Kemalism|ˈkɛmalɪz(ə)m|
[f. the name of Kemal Atatürk (c 1880–1938), Turkish soldier and statesman + -ism.]
The political, social, and economic policies advocated by Kemal Atatürk, which aimed to create a modern republican secular Turkish state out of a part of the Ottoman empire. So ˈKemalist, one who advocates or believes in the theory of Kemalism; an adherent or supporter of Kemalism; also as adj.
1920N.Y. Times 3 Dec., Greek troops have dispersed the Kemalists in the district of Nicee. 1921Manch. Guardian Weekly 29 July 65 The Kemalists are evacuating Angora. 1925Ibid. 11 Dec. 476 The anti-Kemalist revolt..has as its centre the town of Erzerum, where, curiously enough, Kemalism was born. 1927Observer 18 Sept. 7 In Turkey an utter victory for the Kemalists over the Greeks supplied the opportunity for a comprehensive scrapping of Turkey's Ottoman habits... Quite the most striking of these post-war metamorphoses has been accomplished by Kemalist Turkey, the leader among Oriental nations in the race for ‘Westernisation’. 1947A. Koestler in Partisan Rev. XIV. 344 Under a de Gaulle regime of the Kemalist type you could after all go on publishing your stuff within limits. 1959Encounter Sept. 36/1 The theoretical justification of Kemalism. 1963Times 23 Apr. 11/3 The pamphlets were said to have been signed ‘the Army of Young Kemalists’. 1966Tablet 12 Mar. 299/2 The Kemalist revolution was often brutal. |