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Young Turks
Young TurksA number of late 19th- and early 20th-century reformers in the Ottoman empire who carried out the Revolution of 1908 . The most prominent party was the Committee of Union and Progress, which seized power in 1913 and (under the triumvirate of Enver Pasha , Talat Pasha, and Jamal Pasha) ruled the Ottoman empire until 1918 , supporting the Central Powers in World War I.
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