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Caliphate should be thrown away right after the french revolution. Nationalism was on the rise and that meant religious states was going to weaken. Ottoman empire has kept the caliphate to keep the Arabs happy, but when the british came they revolted anyway.
Arrogance destroyed the empire. They looked over their shoulders to europe and didn't follow the advancements there. Atatürk went beyond that when he gave the women the right to vote, even french women didn't have that right. People were discussing it like they are discussing gay marriage right now. It's better to be ahead of others in civil laws.
Would you rather live in Saudi Arabia that banned slavery in 1963? And still doesn't give the women to drive a fvcking car?
@Kaan
There's a good chance you'd be beheaded in Afghanistan in the name of İslam...
Don't get me wrong. I'm not that religious. I wasn't looking at the caliphate on the religious aspect.
For me it's basically this influence it has on the Muslims. Even today Muslims still look up on strong Muslim leaders. At least in East and south Asia and to some extent even in the Arab world.
And I repeat again. I wasn't talking about a state controlled by the caliph, but rather a caliph under the authority of the state.
Turkey would still be the Turkey of today.