Kemalism

Kemalism (Turkish: Kemalizm, also archaically Kamâlizm) or Atatürkism (Atatürkçülük) is a political ideology based on the ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Turkey. Its symbol is the Six Arrows (Altı Ok). Turkey during the Atatürk era was defined by sweeping political, social, cultural, and religious reforms designed to separate the Republican state from its Ottoman predecessor and embrace a Western lifestyle, including the establishment of secularism/laicism, state support of the sciences, gender equality, economic statism, and more. Most of those policies were first introduced to and implemented in Turkey during Atatürk's presidency through his reforms.