Mustafa Kemal was a war hero from the Ottoman Empire. After WWI he became the first president of Turkey. Mustafa wanted a complete overhaul of the social culture in his new country. He wanted it to be completely secular and more western. Secular means being completely irrelevant from religion. Mustafa didn't want to be a completely Islamic government. He also made several cultural changes such as making the fez illegal, as well as making the veil women wore illegal. Mustafa thought it made the country look backwards and ignorant. He also didn't mind other religions in his country such as Jews and Christians.
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