In the 1920s the Kemalists opposed the Sultan in this country & eventually prevailed
Since the mid-1920s, the Stalinists maintained that "at the moment"... [DOC] [TLE] The Catastrophe in Turkey  Fulcrum7 [PAR] Jul 30, 2016 ... were barred from wearing the veil, and the practice was eventually adopted by ... 
Turkey has a long history of military intervention in civil affairs to enforce Kemalist 
secularism.