"Atat\u00FCrk's Reforms (Turkish: Atat\u00FCrk Devrimleri) were a series of political, legal, cultural, social, and economic policy changes that were designed to convert the new Republic of Turkey into a secular, modern nation-state. Central to these reforms were the belief that Turkish society would have to Westernize itself both politically and culturally in order to modernize."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .