One of the other comprehensive cultural novelties brought to Turkey by 
Ataturk was the abolition of the Arabic Script to be superseded by the the 
new Latin Alphabet under the pretexts that it would proliferate the literacy 
rate as well as augmenting the integration of the Turkish Population with 
Europe. In fact, majority of the cultural changes made in the Turkish Society 
were intended to move the country closer to Europe by totally erasing the 
past of the country for which Turks still have an unduly pride despite having 
renouncing it (a sheer inconsistency). More than 70 years have elapsed since 
the initiation of cultural changes introduced in the Turkish Society. There 
still hasn't been an iota of rapprochement with the European Countries, nor 
has the country been profoundly Westernised. As a matter of fact, the country 
has been plunged into a cultural darkness riddled with people who are foreign 
to their culture and identity. The cultural changes, notably the introduction 
of Latin Alphabet, had been intended to enable Turks to embrace modernity of 
Europe much faster. Yet, have you noticed why there has always been a huge 
vacuum of people speaking English fluently within the Turkish Society? 
Furthermore, how well aware are Turks of other European Societies apart from 
their workers being despised by each host country due to their aberrant and 
non-integrating stance? 

There had previously been a debate of utterly abolishing the Arabic Alphabet 
Iran is using during the reign of the outgoing Pahlavi's father. However, his 
suggestions of introducing Latin Script, inspired from Turkey, to the Iranian 
Society was met with a considerable amount of confrontation by Iranian 
Scholars, who maintained that the loss of our current alphabet would have a 
retrograde effect in the cultural direction of the country and would totally 
raze the grandeur of our language and literature. In fact, one of Atataurk's 
motives of changing the Alphabet was the low literacy rate of Turkey and that 
the Arabic Script was hard to learn. However, after a period of 70 years, 
when we juxtapose the literacy rates of both Iran and Turkey, we would see 
that Turkey's literacy rate stands at 85% and that of Iran is around 80%. 
Evidently, there is a minor difference of just a mere 5%. In that case, Iran 
seems to have managed to increase its literacy rate to 80% without even going 
through so much of hassle Turkey did. What is more, Iran still hasn't been 
chucked at a culturally disoriented state at the presence of our current 
alphabet. So does that really postulate a change of alphabet? If Turkey was 
intended to be a Democracy, shouldn't that change of Alphabet have been 
decided by means of a poll?