Turkish peasant vis-à-vis the republic

The Turkish Republican Revolution followed the National Struggle for the independence of the remaining Turkish sections of the former Ottoman State. The republican material gains as well as social changes and opinions made scene on city centers soon after if not all at once. But republican ways’ and gains’ “leaking into” villages were to take much more time, overcoming resistance and natural obstructions on the way. The Trial of village institutions and the mechanization of agriculture are two important events on the way to modernization of the countryside.