Episode 3 The Reform Factory

At last, the country exists, there's no more war (at least not with foreign powers) and there's a whole lot of things to fix, so let's learn a little about what needed fixing. We begin our look at Ataturk's reforms up to 1928, just before the Great Depression hits and see what exactly the Kemalists identified as their necessary early reforms. We lay out the situation Turkey was in on its independence in 1923, including the economy (there wasn't any), the literacy (there wasn't much) and the Caliph (there was one too many) and what the Kemalists proposed to do about each of the problems facing the early republic. This is more of a high level assessment of the period from 1923-1928 since, as you might guess, there were a lot of reforms, some would say too many, but that's a topic for another day.

 

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Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan (who we once again forgot to thank in the actual recording, so maybe third time is the charm?) who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!

 

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy

Ben - @Patricipacion