Abstract
The Westernization policy of the Ottoman Empire that began at the start of the eighteenth century gave rise to a cultural duality with different and incompatible worldviews: the traditional Islamic culture on the one hand, and the new, modern or secular Western culture on the other. Turkey’s politics in the last two centuries can be seen as an open or disguised clash between traditionalists and modernists. While traditionalists limit modernization to the military, the scientific, and the technological spheres and strongly oppose a morality and lifestyle related to the modern West, modernists defend the modernization of all aspects of life, including the philosophical, political, cultural, legal, familial, and so forth. Since the early nineteenth century, modernists have increasingly gained hegemony over traditionalists, and with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the republic, the modernists took complete control of politics, and modernity became one of the primary defining characteristics of the Turkish republic.
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Ünder, H. (2012). Constructivism and the Curriculum Reform of the AKP. In: İnal, K., Akkaymak, G. (eds) Neoliberal Transformation of Education in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan’s Postcolonial Studies in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137097811_3
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