11th Century Turkey

Ataturk and Reza Shah had a large influence on the governments of Turkey and Iran by secularizing and westernizing each. This secularization has had a distinct role in shaping the language, education, religion and government of both Turkey and Iran. Their end goals were to create a powerful and prevalent world powers that is distinct. Comparing the two countries, there were many similarities between each reformation, but each is distinct in certain aspects.

Turkey, though once the throne of Christendom, it began a new and glorious religious history starting in 1453 with the sack of Constantinople by the Islamic Turkish forces. During the next half millennium the strong Ottoman state is primarily controlled by the Islamic Sultanate and Caliphate. Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire was a, if not the, cultural center of the Islamic world. The empire brought great wealth, knowledge and culture into the modern day lands of Turkey. Although the modern Republic tried to suppress its Ottoman past, Turkey's Islamic beginnings remain a source of great Turkish pride. Though most people can no longer access their history through original Ottoman texts it is impossible to hide the

The Ottoman Empire, founded by Osman, had started in the northwestern corner of the Anatolian Peninsula. The empire expanded rapidly, only to weaken again. The first visible decline

4). In 1913, “three of the Young Turks helped to gain control of Turkey’s government via a coup” (UHRC, par. 10). They wanted to create a “great and eternal land called Turan with one language and one religion” (UHRC, par. 10).

The Ottoman Empire was actually known as “the sick man of Europe” because of its constant military and territorial losses, and the Young Turks felt it was their duty to save it. Some Young Turks wanted to keep the empire out of foreign control “through democracy… and modernization; [but] other Young Turks were intent on creating a more unified Turkish state with a Turkish national identity and a unified Turkish language and culture.” By 1908, the Young Turks had officially gained power over the Ottoman Empire. The formal name for the Young Turk’s political organization was the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). The CUP had enough power to force the sultan to give the empire a constitutional government. After about a year, the sultan was removed from power and a younger and much weaker sultan was placed in power. Even though that sultan was weak, he still had supporters and people in high political offices; so, the Young Turks still overthrew him in a violent coup d’état in 1912. The Young Turks believed that that line of sultans had led to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire and they wanted to raise it back up. Once the Young Turks aka CUP was in power, everyone could see that their division in ideals was going to lead them into a place of turmoil. Some wanted democracy and others wanted a dictatorship. The group in favor of a dictatorship eventually won. This group lasted from about 1913-1918. The Young Turks believed in secularism, which means they wanted

The Ottoman Empire, one of the most valiant world powers of its time, received heavy influence from the spread of Islam through Europe and Asia Minor. Culture, military, and politics also held a stranglehold on the Ottoman Empire. Emerging as one of the many Turkish states in Asia Minor from the decline of the Seljuk Turk Empire, the Ottoman Turks began to engulf surrounding states, gaining vast territory. By the mid to late 1400’s, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most dominant empires in all of Europe.

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and strongest Turkish Muslim empires in the world, with its capitol Constantinople it led the trade in the eastern and western world. Constantinople had total control of the Silk Road due to location, being in the middle of the black and Mediterranean Sea gave Constantinople total control of the trade market. Leading for more than 600 years (Modern World History, chap. 5, sect. 2) the Ottoman Empire served as a unification between different and separated parts of the Islamic world. The Ottoman Empire rose to power mainly due to Mongols destroying their Islamic dynasty known as the Seljuk Turks, this in turn caused the Ottoman Turks to regain their strength and regroup. Military leaders also played an important role in the development of the empire.

The cultural and political legacy of the Ottoman Empire still reflects up today in Arab nations such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia. In the capital of Turkey, Istanbul, there are examples of art and architecture Muslim living with art and Byzantine architecture, product of Christian orthodoxy. The most sumptuous monuments are the Church of St. Sophia and the Blue Mosque. Since then, the Ottoman Empire came to dominate a region that included Anatolia, the Balkans, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and much of Asia Minor. One of the most striking events of the twentieth century was perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire: the genocide of the Armenians, between 1915 and 1917, during the First World

The Ottomans were a very strong/forceful empire that covered a vast area. They’re one of the greatest civilizations of the modern period. The Ottoman empire was also the most influential of the Muslim empires of the modern period. Their glory in the sixteenth century represents one of the heights of human creativity, idealism, and art. Their culture and military expansion extended over into Europe, and The Ottoman Empire grew to it’s height of power.

Before the Ottoman Empire rose to power, there were many Turkish tribes in Central Asia but they were forcefully chased out of the area by the Mongols. They all settled in an area known today as Turkey. The tribes settled in one area and grew into one big group and got increasingly bigger until they needed a government and law

Starting in the 16th century the ottoman empire after long struggles and achievements of taking over and ruling Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, And Romania in the balkans, over all the islands in the eastern mediterranean, and lastly over what is today the middle east.latter on during the first world war Ataturk took a quest, making a sacrifice which almost coast him to lose his own life in the most symbolic war in Gallipoli where he was shot in the heart but saved by his pocket watch who took the shot. His goals and determination was to have Turkey gain self determination and national independence. Finally after world war 1 the Sultan wanted to make ataturk a puppet ruler and share the land of the empire and distribute it among the

Turkey and Iran are both countries that emerged out of the debris of long, Islamic empires. Both nations were truly founded post-World War I: Turkey from the Ottoman Empire and Iran from the Safavids then the Qajars. These empires had kept their two regions extremely stable, and the stability of Islam lasted them both until their downfalls. Post-World War I, the recently founded nations began to move in a new direction: towards secular, Western-style government. Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, and Reza Shah, the founder of Iran, secularized their governments and attempted to modernize their nations by following Western models. However, the path of these two nations soon split, as Turkey became an extremely

The Turks were the first Asian people to leave written records in their language. The first documents were from the eighth century. The Turks worshiped heaven and were shamanistic. in 552 the Turks which specialized in metalworking rebelled against their leaders, the Rouruan, who dominated central Asia through Mongolia. The eastern Turks fought among themselves. In the seventh century the Eastern Turks fought with the tang Dynasty and broke apart. In the eighth century the Uighurs formed a new empire in Mongolia which had close ties to Tang China. In the ninth century the Uighur empire was destroyed by the Kyrgyz which was another Turkish group.

In particular, the Ottoman Empire subsisted as a Turkish Islamic Empire that reigned over the Armenia Christians and Bulgarian Orthodox Christians. The Ottomans occupied an area of geographic and strategic importance, including extensive Mediterranean and Black Sea coastline and the Bosphorus, a strait of water connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. In terms of its demographic, the Ottoman Empire contained Muslims, Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, and Jews. The Ottoman Empire was initially an Absolute Monarchy until the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 transformed or became a Constitutional Monarchy.

In the late thirteenth century, a new group of Turks under their leader Osman began to build power in the northwest corner of the Anatolian Peninsula.That land had been given to them by the Seljuk Turk rulers as a reward for helping the rulers to defend their lands against the Mongols in the late thirteenth century.