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I have many times seen threads asking about potential countries that could "pull a Meiji" meaning rapid modernisation of an underdeveloped non European/ Southern European country during the late 19th century.

I've become interested in the modernising reforms/secularisation/republicanism that mustafa Kemal brought to turkey in the wake of ww1 and the war of independance.

The question that I haven't seen discussed (correct me if I'm wrong) is whether in other countries there were candidates to do similar things a nationalistic militaristic moderniser, similar to attaturk or pilsudksi in Poland, which countries had the conditions/political figures to accomplish this?

Sorry if this is too vague.
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