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Kemal Ataturk realised that Turkey had to modernise and he went about the task with a vengeance, westernising his nation and removing religious obscurantism. He even banned the “fez” and Turks took to western-style clothes, abandoning their traditional attire. Perhaps most radical of all, he replaced the Perso-Arabic Turkish script with the Roman (Indonesia did the same, and interestingly enough, our own Subhas Chandra Bose proposed doing it to Hindi, to make it more acceptable to south Indians).