Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution  Turkey’s Glorious Hat
Revolution by Kaya Genç  November 11th, 2013 reset - +  THE
WORLD'S first hat revolution took place in Turkey in 1925. On
November 25 of that year, the parliament passed a law that made
it mandatory for all men to wear Western-style hats in public
places; all civil servants had to wear them, and no other type
of hat would be allowed. Those who went hatless would be left
alone, but if one wanted to wear a hat then one had to either
wear the proposed model (and not the traditional turban or fez)
or face the consequences, which could be as severe as the death
penalty.  Before the “Hat Law” was passed in parliament, the
Turkish revolutionary Mustafa Kemal had visited the Anatolian
town of Inebolu where he gave an impassioned speech (later
dubbed “The Hat Sermon”) to a group of bemused Anatolians.
“Masters,” he said (Kemal always addressed his audience as
“masters” and once said the peasants were “the true masters of
the country”):  The people who constitute