Cost: Opposition |
On February 13, 1925 the rebellion for an independent and religiously based Kurdistan began. Swiftly, opposition was killed. The government bombed continuing revolts and restricted the press.
"Within the political and social unity of today's Turks nation, there are citizens and co-nationals who have been incited to think of themselves as Kurds, Circassians, Laz or Bosnians. But these erroneous terms have brought nothing but sorrow to individual members of the nation, with the exception of a few brainless reactionaries, who became the enemy's instruments." |
Others opposed reforms, stating they were moving too fast.
“ In 1928, when he decided that the Arabic script, which had been used by the Turks for a thousand years, should be replaced with the Latin alphabet. He asked the experts: ‘How long would it take?’ Most of them replied: ‘At least five years.’ ‘ We shall do it,’ Atatürk said, ‘within five months’” |