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I know you mean well, but you have such a rose-tinted, ignorant and frankly condescending and stupid way of looking at the late Ottoman era, that you make it very hard for me to keep myself from insulting you.
I'd like to see Ataturk's reform, but in a more moderate way.
1. The Ottoman script should be kept. No to Latin script.
No. Fuck no. "Ottoman script" is just badly cobbled together Arabic script. Arabic script, due to the pecularities of both languages, does not fit the Turkish language. Today, even basic handwritten historical reports need the collaboration of multiple experts to decipher. This is not about the loss of that script. Even native users of the script (Arabs and Persians) have difficulty. And that is not because of their unfamiliarity. In Arabic, word roots are defined as collections of consonants. Turkish doesn't work like that. In Turkish, meaning is conveyed by differences in wovels. Arabic script doesn't have any wovels.
Before Atatürk's script reforms, the literacy rate in Turkey was in single digit percentages, all either educated elites from Istanbul, or religious leaders from the rural areas. The ease of the new script allowed him to bring that rate to high 70s within a couple of years, and almost full literacy by the end of his lifetime.
Arabic script and Turkish language does not work. Anyone who thinks Ottoman script should have remained has no idea either works.
2. Don't ban people from wearing clothes they want, nor forcing western dress
You have no idea what the "millet" system is or how it worked. In the Millet system, clothing, especially headwear, is a way to distinguish between religious, national and social groups. Forcing Western dress is a way of homogenizing the country without making one group dominant over others. Millet system needed to be destroyed.
3. No changing the name of god from Allah to Tengri. The azan stays in Arabic. (This part of the reform was later reversed).
It was done to break the power of the religious elites, who have done nothing good for the country for the last half century.
4. No closure of all Sufi lodges and banning of brotherhoods. Sure, bad ones that Effendi Khuzdul mentioned can be reformed. But there is no need to make it illegal. Not all of them would have been bad.
Lose the "Effendi". This single word demonstrates the depth of your ignorance, so go read a cartload more books before you even speak of my country again. I am not some Arab sheik, you idiot. I am Turkish.
The "good Sufi lodges" you are dreaming of DO NOT EXIST. Stop hoping that there was any good in that cesspit. There wasn't.
5. No oppression of Kurds. They were banned to speak their own language. This is ridiculous and should be stopped.
That was done later. Ethnic opression of Kurds was not an Atatürk-era policy.
Other than that, I support many of the secular principles. Ataturk did much good for women's role in society and education in schools. Also support for science and modern industry. These things were a valuable step forward for Turkey.
Despite my criticisms earlier, on balance there is no doubt that Ataturk was a far better leader than Erdogan.