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REFLECTIONS OF MUSTAFA KEMALATATURK'S REFORMS IN THE KINGDOM OFYUGOSLAVIAProf. Dr. Ljiljana COLIC*"The Turkish revolution has achieved complete success and broughtTurkey towards prosperity... The unanimously elected president of thenew republic is Kemal whose revolutionary determination, national consciousnessand ability of a statesman are firmly woven into the events announcingand, I dare say, providing great and universal renaissance ofTurkey... Regarding the prospect of a long period of national progeressand International peace secured by the epoch of prosperity and consciousness,hardly few individuals among our people will not look forward tothis new and happy epoch in Turkey".It was on November 24, 1923 that Dragisa Lapcevic, a journalist,cultural and political worker, had made such a judgement. Two chaptersin his analysis of our Muslims were dedicated to the current political situationin Turkey and to its creator Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, with a photo ofhim and his wife printed at back page 1 .Since then the events that took place in the Republic of Turkey, itscultural, economic and entire progress as well as its legendary presidenthad become the inexhaustible topic of the Yugoslav press, newspapers,magazines and several books in the succeeding years and decades up tothe Second world war.The cited quotation clearly states that the new-born Kingdom ofSerbs, Croats and Slovenians (i.e., the Kingdom of Yugoslavia since1929), which was striving for national and international peace and prosperityitself had excepdet the prospective reforms and changes in the Republicof Turkey with obvious affınity, though they were indicated just inclues down there.* Faculty of Philology, Belgrade.1. Dragisa Lapcevic. O nasim muslimanima, (Of our Muslims), Belgrade 192, 50-56;61-62.183