1 gen 1940 anni - 1924: Religious schools were closed and the Caliphate was abolished as part of Atatürk's secularization reforms. First National Education Law Introduced in 1926: the Ministry of National Education's centralization of education. the development of a uniform curriculum to replace regional differences. 1933: The New Turkish Alphabet is Adopted: Latin letters are substituted for the Arabic script in an effort to raise the literacy rate. Adult education became mandatory in order to ease the transition. Basi (Il nastro del tempo)