Are you kidding me? Do you ahve any idea about politics in Turkey? After Ismet Inonu, CHP didn't won one elections... Turkey was always ruled by Right wing goverments... What kind of joke are you? and ,n the times of the real secularists = Mustafa Kemal, Turkey was the fastest growing economy of the world... We even exported fighter planes to Holland... What kind of propaganda did you go trough? With Japan, US and Canada Turkey was the only country that stayed free from emperial claws of Europe...
This is ridiculus... Being protestant did not effect anything other than creating an environment that made it easy to seperate church and state and improved education... Not because it created a more devout people but it created more free and less radical people...
Tukey's most succesfull bussiness man is from Ankara not from Kayseri...
Yet another post full of dramatical errors. Sorry i can't stand your ignorance, that is why i feel the need to correct every single thing you write.
After the foundation of the republic in 1923 for about next ten years Turkey experienced process of secular Westernization through ataturks reforms. These are his major reforms:
March 3, 1924 Abolition of the office of Caliphate held by the Ottoman Caliphate.
November 25, 1925 Change of headgear and dress
November 30, 1925 Closure of religious convents and dervish lodges.
March 1, 1926 Introduction of the new penal law.
October 4, 1926 Introduction of the new civil code.
November 1, 1928 Adoption of the new Turkish alphabet
June 21, 1934 Law on family names.
November 26, 1934 Abolition of titles and by-names.
December 5, 1934 Full political rights, to vote and be elected, to women.
February 5, 1937 The inclusion of the principle of laïcité in the constitution.
And Kemals single party period ended in 1946.
And the real multi-party period started with Adnan Menderes . He relaxed the restrictions on Islam and presid over a booming economy. In 1960, General Cemal Gürsel led a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Menderes, the second of whom was executed. The system returned to civilian control in October 1961. The political system that emerged in the wake of the 1960 coup was a fractured one, producing a series of unstable government coalitions in parliament alternating between the Justice Party of Süleyman Demirel and the Republican People's Party of İsmet İnönü and Bülent Ecevit on the left.
The army gave a memorandum warning the civilian government in 1971, leading to another coup which resulted in the fall of the Demirel government and the establishment of interim governments.
A military coup d'état, headed by General Kenan Evren, took place in 1980. Martial law was extended from 20 to all then existing 67 provinces of Turkey. Within two years, the military returned the government to civilian hands, although retaining close control of the political scene.
The political system came under one-party governance under Turgut Özal's Motherland Party (ANAP), which combined a globally oriented economic program with conservative islamic social values. Under Özal, the economy boomed, converting towns like Gaziantep from small provincial capitals into mid-sized economic boomtowns. Military rule began to be phased out at the end of 1983.
In 1997, the military, citing his government's support for religious policies deemed dangerous to Turkey's secular nature, sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan requesting that he resign, which he did. This was named a postmodern coup.
And after the economic crisis during Ecevits term AKP came to power even though Erdogan was jailed by the same military.
Now tell me, during whose time did Turkey see daylight? It was always during conservative muslim people that Turkey actually experienced economic and social boom and during the leftist governments who only fed their own pockets Turkey experienced harsh times and disaster. If we have to look at Turkey the solution is pretty easy. Conservative parties are the most honest and best at economy when it comes to state affairs. Whereas kemalists/secularists are like blood-sucking parasites.
Menderes, Özal and Erdogan what is the common denominator = conservative Muslims.
And about the Mustafa Kemal's period. I never read or founf any information that is free of bias that showed any significant growth.
