Atatürk's Reforms<span> (</span>Turkish<span>: </span>Atatürk Devrimleri<span>) were a series of political, legal, religious, cultural, social, and economic policy changes that were designed to convert the new </span>Republic of Turkey<span> into a </span>secular<span>, modern </span>nation-state<span> and implemented under the leadership of </span>Mustafa Kemal Atatürk<span> in accordance with </span>Kemalist ideology<span>. Central to these reforms were the belief that Turkish society would have to Westernize itself both politically and culturally in order to modernize</span>
