Kemalism in Turkey was in a completely different situation. Ataturk was not a monarch and had a functioning state to work with. Both Reza and Muhammad Shah were autocratic monarchs who tried to surpress Majlis and had to build up the state from quite literally no power projection outside the capital and no bureaucracies.
I think what @Wendell meant was a 1921 PoD, when Mohammed Reza Palevi overthrew Qajars, he should declared a republic instead of crowning himself and Starting a palevi dynasty.What the Pahlavis should have done is built a republic modeled on Kemalism.
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