The Ottoman and post-Islam Turkic scripts uses Arabic alphabet, and it is rather incompatible with Turkish than Latin alphabet—different grammar and pronunciation rules.
The literacy rate in pre-reform Anatolia was around 9%, so the switch wasn’t that hard unlike reactionaries—the Ottoman fetishizers and Islamic cultists—claim. The switch was necessary for educating the masses and “catching up with the West”, as Atatürk said.
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