Mustafa Kemal
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lived from 1881 to 1938. He overthrew the last Ottoman sultan in 1922 and became president of Turkey in 1923.
Kamal Attatruk introduced many Westernizing reforms into Turkish society. Samuel Huntington defines "Kamalism" as a response to attempts at "reconciliation of Islam and modernity', or to modernise Islam without Westernization.
Reference
- Samuel P Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York: Touchtone, 1997. [1]