and in their fences and kaftans these changes also have a religious element in anatolia the heart is seen as a symbol of godlessness. the heart law of $925.00 attracts more criticism than the abolishment of the caliphate the year before. their uprisings and some people who refused to abandon their traditional fans headwear are sentenced to death. that same year parts of the kurdish population begin to demand autonomy. ataturk refuses although the kurds had supported him during his war for independence. the kurdish leader shakes 8 calls for a 1000000000 and demands the revival of the caliphate the government suppresses the rebellion brutally sending the shake and 47 of his followers to the gallows. secularism and the kurdish question both continue to play an important and divisive role in turkey's internal politics to this day. it is a 924 the regime began to crack down in the wake of the kurdish rebellion in 1925 opposition parties were silenced and the press was placed on the government control. turkey became a single party state one could call a dictatorship. often considered chang

lucky that he was fighting english australia new zealand soldiers in 1915 and he wasn't sent to anatolia. that imad he was the only prominent figure among the young turks who was not contaminated by those events there. cannot media. your highness disturbing news has reached my yes the armenians are good gentle people your countrymen have been engaged in terrible assaults. how could you possibly presume to take the side of the armenians who claim to have existed as a nation and now hope to prove their own worth again thereby harming the turkish empire one hears disturbing things spoke we did not come here to discuss the armenian question. but rather to determine the strength of the german army we stake our lives on your troops. we are relying on you were a gentleman please. it's one of the few politicians who speaks up about the deportation of the armenians. the german ambassador in istanbul also lodges a protest. manhunt bag the german chancellor merely replies our only an aim is to keep turkey at our side until the end of the war irrespective of whether it cost armenian lives or not. mo

on the 10th of august 920 reduces the once mighty empire to a fairly populated section of land in anatolia. the greeks have preemptively occupied is near and continue to advance inland. several instances to. serve as the turkish side however versailles at least accorded the germans the potential to be a large power that this was not the case with said which demanded the dismantling of the empire. said signified the end severability that. ataturk considers the 7 to go see a sions an unmitigated disaster long before an agreement is reached he launches his campaign against the dictated freedom from the coastal town of some soon. ataturk already has a plan for a future turkey laid out. ataturk have been sent to some soon with orders to supervise the demobilization of troops instead he refuses to follow the orders of the government in istanbul and calls on the muslim population to resist the greeks this provocation leads to his dismissal from the army. in absentia he and his comrades is met pascha later is met a new are sentenced to death by istanbul's military court. ataturk refuses to give in

it wasn't only people born in anatolia. there are experts who claim that in turkey it wasn't the people who form the nation but the state which effectively created the nation from the top down. but for all. your shit. ataturk's government in ankara banishes the last sultan mcmath the 6th and subsequently all members of the house of. the republic is declared on the 29th of october $923.00 and ataturk is named president. however most of our kamau has not yet achieved his ultimate goal a cultural revolution within turkey. as president he is determined to make his carlsbad ideas a reality. the 1st step the long term bachelor takes is to marry latifah her name his ideal of what a modern woman should be despite the fact that you as a head scarf in public out of respect for local traditions. ataturk's plans for a western style civil marriage ceremony are dashed by the laws of the ottoman empire which are still in effect. however he immediately changes the position of women in society with lots of his help. bandits finnan for narco

for the next 100 years we can live in peace in anatolia any land if syria. is in the hands of the people who are controlled by other regimes we would never have security in our own lands and they would be threatened if syria has got to be secure so that we can be secure in our homes. what in turkey during in syria people are asking you know who is this. so you're listening to the turkish president roger tire better when addressing to the party faithful the uk party members of parliament and as you could hear there was a rousing welcome for him almost like a rock star actually in throughout the speech up until now has been punctuated with with lots of enthusiasm and lots of applause but what we've heard from him basically is he's laying out his rationale for his approach to what's going on in italy it live where we see in northwest syria where he said 15 soldiers have been killed over the past 3 weeks 45 have been injured this he said cannot continue he will not accept any kind of what he described as a provocation and he basically talked about the rights the