On this day, 97 years ago, April 29, 1928 (March 10, 1928 in the lunar calendar), the Turks abandoned Islam and changed to the English alphabet. On April 29, 1928, according to legislation, Turkish elementary school students would soon learn to recite the English letters A-Z without having to learn the traditional Arabic alphabet. This was done because illiteracy in Turkey is mainly caused by the difficulty of learning the Arabic alphabet. The country's 14 million people will have a 15-year transition period before mandatory use of the new alphabet. The newspaper will be printed in both Arabic and Latin. A new dictionary is now being prepared for use when teaching English alphabets in schools. Kemal is teaching Latin alphabet