Let me teach you a little Turkish history:
1. Ataturk saved the honor, life, property and homeland of the Muslim Turkish people and prevented the silence of the prayers in our mosques with the end of the War of Independence, which he fought by implementing the principle of "jihad" of Islam against Christian Crusade imperialism.
2. He established the Directorate of Religious Affairs in order to carry out religious affairs and to prevent the abuse of religion from using religion by bigotary or english-payed so called Sheiks on the public. Rıfat Börekçi, the first President of Religious Affairs of our Republic, always stood by Atatürk, rebelled against the palace, was sentenced to death by the caliph sultan, was a patriotic, brave and intellectual person.
3. He saw the religion of Islam as the "national religion of the Turk", embraced Beloved Prophet(s.a.v.) and developed the Return to Self in Religion, which also includes these issues. In Turkish history, Atatürk is the only statesman who has worked seriously on the religion of Islam at an intellectual level last centuries.
4. Ataturk had been pioneering to translate and tasfir(interpretation) main source of the religion of Islam, Qur'an-ı Kerim, by the most reputable religious scholar at that time. He offered to paid all expenses with his personal money but Elmalılı Hamdi Hodja wanted this money to go to charities.
5. He had the Hadiths of Bukhari, one of the most reliable hadith sources, translated into Turkish in an understandable way. The title of the work is Kamil Miras translation. Understandable and simple Turkish studies are the most basic need for people to embrace Islam at that time, without any need to others.
6. He taught the Turkish Quran, Turkish sermon and adhan in mosques so that the Muslim Turkish people could understand and feel and turn towards God in a more heartfelt way and without the need for intermediaries. This was perhaps the only controversial reform. However, there can never be talk of malicious motives here. Atatürk was a leader who gave importance to the Turkish language and wanted his people to understand what they saying while praying or listening Khutbah. This reform was abolished in 1950 and religious practicing in the Arabic language was reverted.
7. Moving from the fact that Islam does not contain anything contrary to reason and science, it has placed "reason" and "science" at the foundation of the new Turkish state. He did not drift between in the conflict of religion and science, thinking that pure Islam is not an obstacle to reason and science, he acted from the formula that Muslim Turkey can also be a Modern Turkey. Atatürk said, “The Turkish nation should be more religious, only in all its simplicity. I believe Islam as I believe in the truth itself." He always drew attention to the relationship between religion and science such statements as: " The religion of Islam is a religion that is completely compatible with reason and logic. "
8. All concepts that were supposed to be necessary in the religion of Islam, but that emerged later, such as sultanate, caliphate, madrasahs, dervish lodges, fortune-telling, witchcraft, heathen-like practises, or wearing fez, all these institutions, concepts and objects have removed. All of these are aimed at helping people claim the essence of Islam and abandon superstitions.
9. By declaring the Republic, he transformed the state, which the Umayyad caliph Muawiya transformed into a sultanate centuries ago, back to its original essence & people's choice, centuries later.
10. With the principle of secularism, while separating religion and state affairs from each other, it prevented the abuse of religion and guaranteed freedom of religion.
11. For centuries, women, who have been left behind, restricted, suppressed for so-called "religious reasons" (but actually as a result of bigotry) have regained the dignity of human in a way that befits to their "maternity". The civil, social, cultural and political rights Atatürk gave to Muslim Turkish women are in all respects in accordance with the spirit of the religion of Islam.
12. With the War of Independence he won, he created a model of "independence" for the whole Islamic world, that was crushed under the feet of imperialism at that time, and during the Republic period, he established very good relations with the Islamic world and against the expansionist ambitions of countries such as Italy, Germany and Russia. The Sadabat Pact between Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq was one of the pionering model about Muslim world solidarity and it was Atatürk's foreign policy.