The Republic swiftly moved to put an end to the so-called "Capitulations," the special rights and privileges that the Ottomans had granted to some European powers.
Ataturk established basic principles for the young Turkish Republic stressing the republican form of government, secular administration, nationalism, populism, mixed economy with state participation in many vital sectors and modernization. "Ataturkism," as the sixth principle is widely called, introduced to Turkey the process of parliamentary and participatory democracy together with an evolving and dynamic societal structure.The first Moslem nation to become an independent Republic, Turkey has served since the early 1920s as a model of modernization developing nations.
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