Ataturk wanted to modernise Turkey in the 1920s.
WHY:
Wanted to create a secular state.
PROBLEM:
In 1923 as the government implemented their progressive policies..they found resistance to the banning of the veil. That would have created resistance and violence.
They first considered banning it outright but decided it would bring about to much resistance and potential blood shed.
SOLUTION:
So, Rather than using a coercive approach,
JK: Ataturk being a lateral thinker made it instead compulsory for prostitutes to wear a veil
PUNCHLINE:
It wasn't long that support of woemn and their husbands for the veil began to dwindle. After all who wants to be labelled a prostituete or have a wife that sleeps with every man in the village.
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