Atatürk's Principles

1. The pillars of the Kemalist Ideology are interchangeably referred as Kemalist Principles or Principles of Ataturk or Ataturk’s Principles or Ataturk Principles. For the rest of the text Atatürk’s Principles is used to refer to the pillars of the Kemalist Ideology.

1.1. Atatürk’s Principles are: (1) Republicanism; (2) Nationalism; (3) Populism; (4) Statism; (5) Secularism; and (6) Revolutionizm.

1.2. For further info:http://theataturksocietyofcanada.ca/mka/revolutions/ataturks-principles/

2. At the end of the victorious Turkish independence war in 1922, Mustafa Kemal and his friends in the independence movement were set to implement major changes, which were tantamount to revolutions in social, political, economical, religious and judicial spheres of the society consisted of the remnants of the Ottoman Empire

3. The revolutions implemented by Mustafa Kemal and his friends created discussions and controversy, in some cases rejections, in the impacted layers of the society. However, the revolutions were approved and implemented by the approval of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

4. The revolutions later become known as Kemalist Revolutions or Revolutions of Ataturk and some of them become the pillars of Kemalist Ideology (Kemalism) and called Kemalist Principles / Principles of Atatürk although they were not named as such initially by Mustafa Kemal or the Turkish Grand National Assembly. It is worth to note that while the revolutions were implemented Mustafa Kemal had not been given the last name Atatürk.