While the Garpçılar proved to be a marginal movement during the Ottoman Empire, its members had a golden opportunity to advance their philosophy with the establishment of the Turkish Republic. Mustafa Kemal, one of their disciples, was determined to shape the new regime based on their agenda. “Doctor, until now you have written about many things,” he said to Abdullah Cevdet in 1925, as the latter wrote in his memoirs. “Now we may bring them to realization.”
