1/10 Nurettin Topรงu [1909โ1975] was a Turkish ๐น๐ท religious-conservative thinker who studied philosophy in France ๐ซ๐ท during the โ20s/โ30s & came back critical of Kemalist reforms for their modernism. Saw 40 "ethical problems" of his country that still work for elsewhere. ๐งต
2/10 1) Imitation = Westernization
2) Rapid urbanization
3) Rapid industrialization
4) Capitalism
5) Material over spiritual prosperity
3/10 6) Confort
7) Material wealth over all
8) Shift from patriarchal to democratic family
9) Education all in the State, nothing from the family
10) Loss of human value
4/10 11) Time is not valued
12) Trivialization of labor
13) Material possessions
14) Earning over working
15) Class differences are accentuated
5/10 16) Space allowed to ideologies like Communism and Anarchism
17) Wrong democracy
18) Democratic parties against each other
19) Foreign geopolitical powers
20) Importance of historical consciousness for the nation
6/10 21) Simplification of language (Atatรผrk taking out Arabic/Persian influences)
22) Education based on materialism
23) Foreign schools = alternative education
24) Money prioritized in academia
25) Positivist publications
7/10 26) Growing difference between intellectuals/masses
27) Media is controlled by a capitalistic minority
28) Radio ๐ป is a political tool
29) Destructive nature of art as it relies on the "inferior emotions"
30) Morality is not maintained in places such as the jail
8/10 31) Workers moving to foreign countries
32) Wrong jobs for female workers
33) Sport as a form of competition
34) Gambling ๐ฐ
35) Alcohol ๐บ
9/10 36/ Unfulfilling life in the cities ๐
37/ Idealization of pleasure due to Western influence
38/ Bad examples are excused
39/ Bad examples are generalized
40/ Even traditional religious influencers such as clerics are in a state of moral decline