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Also known as: Jöntürkler
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Young Turk Revolution
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Category: History & Society
Turkish:
Jöntürkler
Date:
1889 - October 9, 1918
Areas Of Involvement:
nationalism
Related People:
Enver Paşa
Celâl Bayar
Talat Paşa
Essad Paşa
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Young Turks, coalition of various reform groups that led a revolutionary movement against the authoritarian regime of Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II, which culminated in the establishment of a constitutional government. After their rise to power, the Young Turks introduced programs that promoted the modernization of the Ottoman Empire and a new spirit of Turkish nationalism. Their handling of foreign affairs, however, resulted in the dissolution of the Ottoman state. In 1889 a group of students in the Imperial Medical Academy in Istanbul initiated a conspiracy against Abdülhamid that spread rapidly to other colleges in the city. When the plot was ...(100 of 631 words)

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