The Young Turk Movement Stages a Constitutional Coup in Turkey
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Empires, Dynasties, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Ottoman Empire, Human Rights, Civil Wars, Coups
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History
- Geographical Location: Middle East, Europe, Turkey, Istanbul
- Date: July 24, 1908
Article abstract: After more than five hundred years of rule under despotic sultans, a group called the “Young Turks” declared the Ottoman Empire to be a constitutionally limited multinational monarchy.
Summary of Event
Although autocratic rule had for centuries been a mark of sultanic government in the Ottoman Empire, the last quarter of the nineteenth century probably stood out as the most despotic period of modern times. Experiences earlier in the century, first Napoleon I’s occupation of Sultan Selim III’s Egyptian province (between 1798 and...
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