Bailey’s Blog

        Its 1938 and things here in turkey have dramatically changed since Mustafa Kemal became dictator. First he had made a law forbidding wearing a fez, can you believe it after all these years now we cant even pray because now that we have hats with a brim we cant touch our foreheads to the ground when we pray and its almost like giving up our Muslim religion, and one person actually avoided wearing the hats with brims by wearing bandages on his head like he was in great pain! I used to be going through a great deal of stress because Mustafa had changed our alphabet to one based on the roman alphabet used for western European languages. And he only gave us 3 months to learn the new alphabet by changing all newspapers, street signs and books to be in the new style. Kemal also had changed our capital from being Istanbul to Ankara. But I do have to thank him (if he was still alive) for giving us something more modern in our lives and for changing how we live here in Turkey.

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