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Turkey’s Alphabet Revolution

Estimated read time 6 min read

Explore one of history’s most radical linguistic reforms: Turkey’s 1928 Alphabet Revolution. At the direction of Atatürk, the nation abandoned the centuries-old Arabic script for a new Latin-based alphabet in a matter of months. This bold move transformed literacy rates but also severed a direct link to the nation’s Ottoman past, forever changing the country’s cultural identity.