Only a Turk Can Answer This!!

To �ok ge�'s notice,

There is an old closed topic on AE which has relevant posts to this topic.

http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=844& PN=0&TPN=1 

Perhaps, �ok ge� has already read those posts, but those posts on that discussion give opinions of some posters.

The subject in this topic is not to answer someone asking "what would you do if you were in power then?" The past is the past and anyone lived in the past has made his/her fair share of achievements, as well as mistakes. I respect and support the alphabet reform, but so far I have never thought extensively about why it was done. Nobody here seemed to me writing anything crappy. Why don't you quote the so-called crappy remarks and prove otherwise.

I am sure, it would be appreciated, if you can contribute to the topic by reviewing your explanation of what motivated this reform. You may plead ignorance, if you aren't sure.

There is no magic in the history and no one landed from the space. So, we took over the ottoman heritage and institutions either decayed, backward or modern; consequently, Turkish republic is the main country succeeding collapsed ottoman empire. Obviously "what ataturk has done" doesn't need people restrain refrain to discuss his achievements. In my opinion, Ataturk would not wish to be treated like a dogma. 

well,I always wanted to be in the mode of "kill the criminal but dont crush his rights".I am not saying Ataturk was perfect.

Actually I have a reasonable "distance" with ataturk too because he brought western style of life(are u surprised?? )

we have to question our past without taboos to go through the future

yeah geneticaly they are our ancestors,and if they had stayed as if they were in the rule of Osman and Orhan khans,I would be proud to be a descendant of them...

And please but PLEASE dont take it offensive(you can't eh )

werent they the ottomans that brought Belly-dancing and women sex-slavery to turkey?

Please be honest

if we are having a morality crisis it is also the fault of the ottomans.

isnt it the ottoman lovers who are against (well I am against it to be honest) non-modest clothing(lemme be more specififc;western style clothings) of turkish women but cant see that the ottomans are the reason behind this?

Anyhow, I was jus wondering since I saw first the Turk with a Saudi flag and then when I saw Mortaza I realized it is a joke

Not joke. At this times, becoming a citizen of Saudi is fine.

Id love to be an Saudi citizen but i dont like the wahabi rejim

Ok im now a Egyptian mamluke Baybars al-Bunduqdari 

My avatar is a Baybars (mameluk) coin with baybars on the lion sticked on it.

That is true, it is more precise to say Perso-Arabic alphabits Mortaza.

By the way, when did you apply to the Saudi Citizenship?

Maybe that is what Attila meant by identity crisis (just a joke obviously).

with all due respect, I think your remark fits better the defintion of "crappy" in this thread so far. You went on and on about that Ataturk had to do so and so and so, however, you have not given a single reasoning why did he had to do what he had to do? We all know what he did, rather here, we are reasoning the motivation of his decisions. If you had put some effort in reading the previous posts, you would have appreciated every single post here.

700 years of Ottoman rule and taking religion as an identity was a positive point and not the opposite. In fact, it is the only thing that allowed the Ottomans to excercise the protector position on many landscapes from Algeria to the Crimean Khanate.

It only became a crisis in the mid 1800's with the rise of nationalism in Ottoman European proviences, leading to 1912 Balkan war and later (where preveviously Bosnians and Albanians themselves fought the Ottoman on the basis of nationalism), the formation of all other ethnic identities barriers from Armenians to Arabs.

Lastly, blaming the Ottomans for the identity crash (assuming they are the real cause of it instead of the wave of nationalism) is a total ignorance of the greater good they have done. Just think deep that if Ottomans didn't exist, maybe Western Turkey, Istanbul, European Turkey and all the heritage left in the Balkans won't exist. the Ottomans also unified various khanates in Eastern Anatolia.