WI & PC : Non Laïcité Turkey ?

Was the emergence of Kemalist-style secularism inevitable in Turkey ? Could it had been instead a moderately secular Republic not unlike most secular nations ?
 
Firstly I can't beleive I never thought of Laïcité as a describing word for Turkey, even though it's probably the best word for it.

Secondly, I don't see any reason not, ironically Turkey today would probably be less religious if it had.
 
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Firstly I can't beleive I never thought of Laïcité as a describing word for Turkey, even though it's probably the best.
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In Turkish, the word for kemalist-style secularism is Laiklik.

This would actually be pretty easy to do. The first meclis convened in Ankara was a very loose agglomeration of imperial loyalists, army holdouts, and turkish nationalists of varying degrees of religious devoutness. There was a level of discomfort with Mustafa Kemal's enthusiasm for his own, personal, brand of secularism, but after he essentially purged anybody with an independent power base it was advocate headscarves off, fedoras on, or else you wind up military attache to El Salvador.
 
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