This is largely due to one man. 10.05.37 Music 10.05.43 Narrator After the fall of the Muslim Ottoman Empire in the early nineteen twenties, Mustafa Kemal or Ataturk, the father of the Turks, was determined that Turkey should become a more westernised country. 10.05.56 Music 10.05.58 Narrator He ruthlessly set about expunging Islam from every aspect of daily life.

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