Young Turks

The Young Turks (Turkish: Jön Türkler or Genç Türkler) was a broad opposition movement that favored constitutional government in the late Ottoman Empire, eventually prevailing against Sultan Abdulhamid II's absolutist government in the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. With this revolution, the Young Turks helped to establish the Second Constitutional Era in the same year, ushering in an era of multi-party democracy for the first time in the country's history. Within the Young Turks existed many groups and currents, though the most successful of them, the Committee of Union and Progress, became conflated with the rest of the movement.

Not to be confused with Young Ottomans.
This article is about the reform movement within the Ottoman Empire. For other uses, see Young Turks (disambiguation).

The term Young Turk is now used to describe an insurgent trying to take control of a situation or organization by force or political maneuver, and various groups in different countries have been named Young Turks because of their rebellious or revolutionary nature.

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