Thanks John. Let's add to the list: full voting rights for women (before the UK achieved that); changing the calendar from Islamic to Western dating (so this year is 2016 and not 1438); changing written Turkish from Arabic to Roman script (imagine how well Brits, on holiday and ex-pats, would do when confronted with signs saying بازار and imagine the army of scholars Ataturk deployed to agree a Western translation of all of the Arabic Turkish alphabet into Roman - it must have months of work and argument just to invent the yumuşak ge).
P.S. The mysterious (to me) Arabic sign means market or bazaar and is pronounced as the latter.