v28_1944 - TURQUIE - RÉPUBLIQUE 100 piastres or 1956 Ankara

TURKEY - REPUBLIC

Coming from the Young Turks Movement, Mustafa Kemal militates for a nationalism whose model is the France of the Enlightenment. The army remains a pillar of the nation; secular school, free and compulsory, the republican school model of Jules Ferry is established. A new capital, Ankara, is chosen, to the detriment of Istanbul. The language was revised, the Ottoman alphabet of Arabic origin was replaced by the Latin alphabet in 1928. The same year, Islam ceased to be the state religion. From 1919, the status of women also evolved with the recognition of equality between men and women in the civil code, the ban on polygamy, repudiation, the wearing of the veil at school, schooling for girls, hiring women in the administration... In 1930, they voted and were eligible for local elections and in 1934 for national elections.