Ataturk’s secularism was enforced through dress, script, and education bans

Evidence

For example, Kemal Ataturk’s project of secularizing Turkey critically rested on transforming modes of public sociability by making religious attire illegal, mandating European dress for women and men, abolishing the use of Arabic script ( in light of its association with Islam), prohibiting the display of other public markers of religious practice, and banning religious education from schools (Gale 1996; Navaro.- 2002 ). — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 532

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ theme of dress codes as political signaling, and the Lex Oppia sumptuary law parallel.
• ADDENDUM: A prime historical case for the claim that ‘immodesty’ panics are actually political/identity struggles — here secularism itself was imposed through dress mandates.