Young Turk Revolution

The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Revolutionaries belonging to the internal Committee of Union and Progress, an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Constitution, recall the parliament, and schedule an election. Thus began the Second Constitutional Era.

Young Turk Revolution
Part of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire

Declaration of the Young Turk Revolution by the leaders of the Ottoman millets in 1908
DateJuly 1908
Location
Ottoman Empire
Result

Young Turks victory

Belligerents

Committee of Union and Progress
Ottoman Army

 Ottoman Imperial Government
Commanders and leaders
Ismail Enver
Ahmed Niyazi
Rexhep Pasha Mati
Eyub Sabri
Shevket Pasha
Ahmed Riza		 Abdul Hamid II
Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Shemsi Pasha †
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Classical Age (1453–1566)
Transformation (1566–1703)
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Historiography (Ghaza, Decline)
Events leading to World War I

The revolution took place in Ottoman Rumeli. It began with CUP member Ahmed Niyazi's flight into the Albanian highlands. He was soon joined by İsmail Enver and Eyub Sabri. They networked with local Albanians and utilized their connections within the Salonica based Third Army to instigate a large revolt. A string of assassinations by Unionist Fedai also contributed to Abdul Hamid's capitulation.

After an attempted monarchist counterrevolution known as the 31 March incident in favor of Abdul Hamid the following year, he was deposed and his brother Mehmed V ascended the throne.

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