the fez were banned and Western styles of clothing appeared. Women were given the vote and elected to Parliament. The Turkish language began to be written in Western characters, not Arabic letters. Laws were based on Western legal codes, schools followed Western models.
             Mustafa Kemal's government required all Turks to change the habit of centuries and adopt family names as in the West. This is when he took the surname, Ataturk, "father of the Turks". Ataturk and Turkish reformers felt that Western ways could not be adopted one part at a time. They believed that copying the industries and economies of the West was not possible unless one also accepted Western schools, business practices, and social customs. It was the whole of the Western culture that allowed Europe to develop economically, they felt, they wanted this country to develop, so the country had to Westernize. Accepting the ways of the West meant accepting democracy. In the 1950's the Turks created a real democracy which, desp
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