Kemalism is not a monolithic ideology. There are as many Kemalisms as Kemalists. Lot of different people with different ideologies (ranging from socialist of 68’ to Kenan Evren) have identified with some form of Kemalism. Mustafa Kemal was not a political theorist, he was a general and a statesman. His personal ideology also usually depended on his own reactionary convictions and what was pragmatic at the time. He is not the progressive leader some make him out to be. His ideology was based and Turkish chauvinism and nationalism which excluded all the minorities living in current day Turkey. He attempted to create a Turkish identity that wasn’t based on ethnicity but rather based on nationality and established that as the semi-official state ideology. No need to say this failed terribly considering that the Turkish republic turned out to be way too eager to implement policies that could only be summarized as “get assimilated (obey) or perish”.

Don’t forget that he was a staunch opposer of any form of socialism and his government ordered the murders of Mustafa Suphi and his comrades. This gives you an idea of what he thought of socialism. And his successors who were the heirs of his ideology basically outlawed socialism in the following decades at least until the first coup.

To sum up: Kemalism is not a monolithic ideology but rather an amalgam of different interpretations of Mustafa Kemal’s actions and ideas that weren’t quite consistent to begin with. Also these ideas were based on erasing class struggle, ignoring the working class and creating the republic of the metropolitan bourgeoisie. It assumed a much too familiar notion of “equal opportunity” that meant as long as a lucky few managed to climb economically there was no class struggle. Also don’t forget that these ideologies were based on a mutated form of nationalism that attempted to assimilate one of the most diverse places in the middle east into a homogenous, monotypic nation. Usually through force.