Kemalismn.
/ˈkɛmalɪz(ə)m/ 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.
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Kemalism1959
1959 Encounter Sept. 36/1 The theoretical justification of Kemalism.
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ˈKemalist n. one who advocates or believes in the theory of Kemalism; an adherent or supporter of Kemalism; also as adj.
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1920 N.Y. Times 3 Dec. Greek troops have dispersed the Kemalists in the district of Nicee.
1921 Manch. Guardian Weekly 29 July 65 The Kemalists are evacuating Angora.
1925 Manch. Guardian Weekly 11 Dec. 476 The anti-Kemalist revolt..has as its centre the town of Erzerum, where, curiously enough, Kemalism was born.
1927 Observer 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’.
1947 A. Koestler in Partisan Rev. 14 344 Under a de Gaulle regime of the Kemalist type you could after all go on publishing your stuff within limits.
1963 Times 23 Apr. 11/3 The pamphlets were said to have been signed ‘the Army of Young Kemalists’.
1966 Tablet 12 Mar. 299/2 The Kemalist revolution was often brutal.
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