Kemalism

Kemalism (Turkish: Kemalizm, also archaically Kamâlizm), also known as Atatürkism (Turkish: Atatürkçülük, Atatürkçü düşünce), or The Six Arrows (Turkish: Altı Ok), is the founding and official ideology of the Republic of Turkey based on the ideas and legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Atatürk's Turkey was defined by sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms designed to separate the Republican state from its Ottoman predecessor and embrace a Western-style lifestyle, including the establishment of secularism/laicism, state support of the sciences, gender equality, economic statism and more. Most of those policies were first introduced to and implemented in Turkey during Atatürk's presidency through his reforms.