Young Turks

Not to be confused withYoung Ottomans.

This article is about the reform movement within the Ottoman Empire. For other uses, seeYoung Turks (disambiguation).

TheYoung Turks(Ottoman Turkish:ژون تركلر,romanized:Jön Türkler,alsoكنج تركلرGenç Türkler) formed as aconstitutionalistbroad opposition-movement in thelateOttoman Empireagainst theabsolutistrégime of SultanAbdul Hamid II(r. 1876–1909). The most powerful organization of the movement, and the most conflated, was theCommittee of Union and Progress(CUP, founded in 1889), though its goals, strategies, and membership continuously morphed throughout Abdul Hamid's reign. By the 1890s, the Young Turks were mainly a loose and contentious network of exiled intelligentsia who made a living by selling their newspapers to secret subscribers.

Flag of theYoung Turk Revolution

A lithograph celebrating theYoung Turk Revolutionfeaturing the sources of inspiration of the movement,Midhat Pasha,Prince Sabahaddin,Fuad PashaandNamık Kemal,military leadersNiyazi BeyandEnver Pasha,and the slogan"Liberty, equality, fraternity"(hürriyet, müsavat, uhuvvetin Turkish,ελευθερία, ισότης, αδελφότηςin Greek)

Included in the opposition movement was a mosaic of ideologies, represented by democrats, liberals, decentralists,secularists,social Darwinists,technocrats, constitutional monarchists, and nationalists, to name a few. Despite being called "the Young Turks", the group was of an ethnically diverse background; in addition to Turks, Albanian,Aromenian,Arab, Armenian, Azeri, Circassian, Greek, Kurdish, and Jewish members were plentiful.Besides membership in outlawed political committees, other avenues of opposition existed in theulama,Sufi lodges,andmasonic lodges.By and large, Young Turks favored taking power away fromYıldız Palacein favour of constitutional governance. Manycoup d'état attemptsassociated with Young Turk networks occurred during the Hamidian era, repeatedly ending in failure.

In 1906, the Paris-based CUP fused with the Macedonia-basedOttoman Freedom Societyunder its own banner. The Macedonian Unionists prevailed against Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the 1908Young Turk Revolution.With this revolution, the Young Turks helped to inaugurate theSecond Constitutional Erain the same year, ushering inan era of multi-party democracyfor the first time in the country's history.In power, the CUP implemented many secularizing and centralizing reforms, but was criticized for pursuing a pro–Turkish ideology. In the wake of events which proved disastrous for the Ottoman Empire as a body-politic (such as the31 March Incidentof April 1909, the1912 coup,and theBalkan Warsof 1912–1913), the country fell under the domination of a radicalized CUP following the 1913Raid on the Sublime Porte.With the strength of the constitution and of parliament broken, the CUP ruled the Empire in a dictatorship, which brought the Empire intoWorld War Iin October 1914. Thegenocidesof 1915 to 1917 against Ottoman Christians were masterminded within the CUP, principally byEnver Pasha,Talat Pasha,Bahaeddin Şakir,and others.

The termYoung Turkis now used to characterize an insurgent trying to take control of a situation or of an organization by force or political maneuver,andvarious groups in different countrieshave been designated "Young Turks" because of their rebellious or revolutionary nature.

Etymology

The term "Young Turks" comes from the FrenchJeunes Turcs,which international observers tagged various Ottoman reformers of the 19th century. HistorianRoderic Davisonstates that there was not a consistent ideological application of the term; statesmen which wished to resurrect theJanissary corpandderebeys,conservative reformers ofMahmud II,and pro-Western reformers ofAbdul Mejid,are all referred to as the party ofJeunes Turcsby different observers. Davison concludes that a Young Turk party was identified in situations where an amorphous "Old Turk" faction was being confronted.

TheYoung Ottomans,the liberal and Islamist opposition movement toFuadandAali Pasha's regime, were also known asJeunes Turcs,though they called themselvesYeni Osmanlılar,or New Ottomans. Historiographically, the group which became definitively known as the Young Turks was the opposition to SultanAbdul Hamid IIwhich surfaced after 1889, theCommittee of Union and Progressbeing its standard bearer.

History

Origins

Young Turks who attended the congress held in Paris under the chairmanship ofPrince Sabahattinbetween 4–9 February 1902

Inspired by theYoung Italypolitical movement, the Young Turks had their origins insecret societiesof "progressive medical university students and military cadets,"namely theYoung Ottomans,driven underground along with all political dissent after theConstitution of 1876was abolished and theFirst Constitutional Erabrought to a close by SultanAbdul Hamid IIin 1878 after only two years.The Young Turks favored a reinstatement of theOttoman Parliamentand the 1876 constitution,written by the reformistMidhat Pasha.

Despite working with the Young Ottomans to promulgate a constitution, Abdul Hamid II dissolved the parliament by 1878 and returned to an absolutist regime, marked by extensive use of secret police to silence dissent, andmassacres against minorities.Constitutionalist opponents of his regime, came to be known as Young Turks.The Young Turks were a heterodox group of secular liberal intellectuals and revolutionaries, united by their opposition to the absolutist regime of Abdul Hamid and desire to reinstate the constitution.Despite the nameYoung Turks,members were diverse in their religious and ethnic origins,with many Albanians, Arabs, Armenians, Circassians, Greeks, Kurds, and Jews being members.

Opposition

To organize the opposition, forward-thinking medical studentsIbrahim Temo,Abdullah Cevdetand others formed a secret organization named theCommittee of Ottoman Union,which grew in size and included exiles, civil servants, and army officers.

In 1894,Ahmed Rızajoined Ottoman Union, and requested it change its name to Order and Progress to reflect hisPositivism.They compromised with Union and Progress. Rıza being based in Paris, the organization was organized aroundMeşveretand its French supplemental.The CUP became the preeminent faction of the Young Turks once as absorbed other opposition groups and established contact with exiled intelligentsia, Freemasons, and cabinet ministers, to the point where European observers started calling them the "Young Turk Party". The society attempted several coup attempts against the government, much to the anti-revolutionary in Rıza's chagrin.

Due to the danger in speaking out against absolutism, Young Turk activity shifted abroad. Turkish colonies were established in Paris, London, Geneva, Bucharest, and Cairo.The several ideological currents in the moment meant unity was hard to come by. Ahmet Rıza advocated for aTurkish nationalistand secularist agenda. Even though he denounced revolution, he had a more conservative and Islamist rival inMehmet Murat BeyofMizanfame. Rıza also had to deal with the "Activist"faction of the CUP that did push for a revolution. Other CUP branches often acted autonomously with their own ideological currents, to the point where the committee resembled more of an umbrella organization.Meşveret(Rıza) called for the reinstatement of the constitution but without revolution, as well as a more centralized Turkish-dominated Ottoman Empire sovereign ofEuropean influence.

The CUP supportedKâmil Pasha's call for responsible government to return to theSublime Porteduring the diplomatic crisis caused by theHamidian massacres.In August 1896, cabinet ministers aligned with the CUP conspireda coup d'étatto overthrow the sultan, but the plot was leaked to the palace before its execution. Prominent statesmen were exiled toOttoman TripolitaniaandAcre.The year after, Unionist cadets of theMilitary Academyschemed to assassinate the Minister of Military Schools, and this plot was also leaked to authorities. In became known as the "Sacrifices of theŞeref"(ŞerefKurbanları) the largest single crackdown of the Hamidian era resulted in more than 630 high-profile arrests and exiles.

Under pressure from Yıldız Palace, French authorities bannedMeşveret,though not the French supplemental, and deported Rıza and his Unionists in 1896. After settling inBrussels,the Belgian government was also pressured to deport the group a couple years later. The Belgian parliament denounced the decision and held a demonstration supporting the Young Turks against Hamidian tyranny. A congress in December 1896 saw Murat elected as chairman over Rıza and the headquarters moved to Geneva, sparking a schism between Rıza's supporters in Paris and Murat's supporters in Geneva.After theOttoman Empire's triumph over Greece in 1897Sultan Abdul Hamid used the prestige he gained from the victory to coax the exiled Young Turks network back into his fold. After expelling Rıza from the CUP, Murat defected to the government, including Cevdet andSükuti.A wave of extraditions, more amnesties, and buy-outs, weakened an opposition organization already operating in exile. With trials organized in 1897 and 1899 against enemies of Abdul Hamid II, the Ottoman Empire was under his secure control. Though moral was low, Ahmet Rıza, who returned to Paris, was the sole leader of the exiled Young Turks network.

In 1899, members of the Ottoman dynastyDamat Mahmud Pashaand his sonsSabahaddinand Lütfullah fled to Europe to join the Young Turks. However, Prince Sabahaddin believed that embracing the Anglo-Saxon values ofcapitalismandliberalismwould alleviate the Empire's problems such as separatism from non-Muslim minorities such as theArmenians,alienating himself from the CUP.

Congresses of Ottoman Opposition

Before the Ottoman opposition congress, which was held in the house ofGermain Antoin Lefevre-Pontalisa member of theInstitut de France,on 4 February 1902, and was closed to the public, with the participation of 47 delegates the Young Turk Committee

TheFirst Congress of Ottoman Oppositionwas held on 4 February 1902, at the house of Germain Antoin Lefevre-Pontalis a member of theInstitut de France.The opposition was performed in compliance with the French government. Closed to the public, there were 47 delegates present. It included Rıza's Unionists, Sabahaddin's supporters, ArmenianDashnaksandVergazmiya Hunchaks,and other Greek and Bulgarian groups. It was defined by the question of whether to invite foreign intervention for regime change in Constantinople to better minority rights; a majority which included Sabahaddin and his followers as well as the Armenians argued for foreign intervention, a minority which included Rıza's Unionists and the Activist Unionists were against violent change and especially foreign intervention.

The Ottoman Freedom Lover's Committee, named after the eponymous 1902 congress, was founded by Prince Sabahaddin andIsmail Kemalin the name of the majority mandate. However the organization was contentious and a coup plot in 1903 went nowhere. They later founded thePrivate Enterprise and Decentralization League,which called for a more decentralized and federalized Ottoman state in opposition to Rıza's centralist vision. After the congress, Rıza formed a coalition with the Activists and founded the Committee of Progress and Union (CPU). This unsuccessful attempt to bridge the divide amongst the Young Turks instead deepened the rivalry between Sabahaddin's group and Rıza's CPU. The 20th century began with Abdul Hamid II's rule secure and his opposition scattered and divided.

TheSecond Congress of Ottoman Oppositiontook place in Paris, France, on 22 December 1907. Opposition leaders includingAhmed Rıza,Sabahaddin Bey,andKhachatur Malumianof theDashnak Committeewere in attendance. The goal was to unite all the Young Turks and minority nationalist movements, in order to bring about a revolution to reinstate the constitution. They decided to put their differences aside and signed an alliance, declaring that Abdul Hamid had to be deposed and the regime replaced with a representative and constitutional government by any means necessary, without foreign interference.

Unionist homecoming in Macedonia

The Young Turks became a truly organized movement with the CUP as an organizational umbrella. They recruited individuals hoping for the establishment of aconstitutional monarchyin the Ottoman Empire. In 1906, theOttoman Freedom Societywas established inThessalonicabyMehmed Talaat.The OFS actively recruited members from theThird Armybase, among them MajorIsmail Enver.In September 1907, OFS announced they would be working with other organizations under the umbrella of the CUP. In reality, the leadership of the OFS would exert significant control over the CUP.Finally, in 1908 in theYoung Turk Revolution,pro-CUP officers marched on Istanbul, forcing Abdulhamid to restore the constitution. Anattempted countercoupresulted in his deposition.

Young Turk Revolution

See also:Young Turk Revolution

Young Turks flyer with the sloganLong live the fatherland, long live the nation, long live libertywritten in Ottoman Turkish and French

In 1908, theMacedonian Questionwas facing theOttoman Empire.Tsar Nicholas IIandFranz Joseph,who were both interested in the Balkans, started implementing policies, beginning in 1897, which brought on the last stages of theBalkanizationprocess. By 1903, there were discussions on establishing administrative control by Russian and Austrian advisory boards in the Macedonian provinces. Abdul Hamid was forced to acceptthis reform package,although for quite a while he was able to subvert its implementation.

However, eventually, signs were showing that this policy game was coming to an end. On 13 May 1908, the leadership of the CUP, with the newly gained power of its organization, was able to communicate to Sultan Abdul Hamid II the unveiled threat that "the [Ottoman]dynastywould be in danger "if he were not to bring back theOttoman constitutionthat he had previously suspended since 1878. By June, Unionist officers of the Third Army mutinied and threatened to march on Constantinople. Although initially resistant to the idea of giving up absolute power, Abdul Hamid was forced on 24 July 1908, to restore the constitution, beginning theSecond Constitutional Eraof the Ottoman Empire.

Aftermath

See also:Second Constitutional EraandDissolution of the Ottoman Empire

Declaration of theYoung Turk Revolutionby the leaders of the Ottomanmilletsin 1908

Young Turk (CUP) Committee in 1909

After the revolution, the Young Turks formalized their differences in ideology by forming political clubs. Two main parties formed: more liberal and pro-decentralization Young Turks formed theLiberty Partyand later theFreedom and Accord Party.The Turkish nationalist and pro-centralization wing among the Young Turks remained in the CUP. The groups' power struggle continued until 1913, after the CUP took over followingMahmud Shevket Pasha's assassination. They brought the Ottoman Empire intoWorld War Ion the side of theCentral Powersduring the war.

During the parliamentary recess of this era, the Young Turks held their first open congress at Salonica, on September–October 1911. There, they proclaimed a series of policies involving the disarming of Christians and preventing them from buying property, Muslim settlements in Christian territories, and the complete Ottomanization of all Turkish subjects, either by persuasion or by the force of arms.By 1913, the CUP banned all other political parties, creating a one party state. The Ottoman Parliament became arubber stampand real policy debate was held within theCUP's Central Committee.

World War I

See also:Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

On 2 November 1914, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers. TheMiddle Eastern theatre of World War Ibecame the scene of action. The combatants were the Ottoman Empire, with some assistance from the other Central Powers, against primarily the British and the Russians among theAllies.Rebuffed elsewhere by the major European powers, the CUP, through highly secret diplomatic negotiations, led the Ottoman Empire to ally itself with Germany.

Armenian genocide

Main article:Armenian genocide

TheArmenian genocidewas the CUP government's systematic extermination of its Armenian subjects.

The conflicts at theCaucasus Campaign,thePersian Campaign,and theGallipoli Campaignaffected places whereArmenianslived in significant numbers. Before the declaration of war at theArmenian congress at Erzurum,Unionist emissaries askedOttoman Armeniansto facilitate the conquest of Transcaucasia by inciting a rebellion among theRussian Armeniansagainst the tsarist army in the event of a Caucasian Front.

The Armenians were perceived to be subversive elements (afifth column) that would take the Russian side in the war. In order to eliminate this threat, the Ottoman government embarked on a large-scale deportation of Armenians from Eastern Anatolia. Around 300,000 Armenians were forced to move southwards toUrfaand then westwards toAintabandMarash.In the summer of 1917, Armenians were moved to theKonyaregion in central Anatolia. Through these measures, the CUP leaders aimed to eliminate the ostensible Armenian threat by deporting themfrom their ancestral lands and by dispersing them in small pockets of exiled communities. By the end of World War I, up to 1,200,000Armenians were forcibly deported fromtheir home vilayets.As a result, about half of the displaced diedof exposure, hunger, and disease, or were victims of banditry and forced labor.

Early on, the Dashnaks had perceived the CUP as allies;the 1909Adana massacrehad been rooted in reactionary backlash against the revolution. But during World War I, the CUP's increasing nationalism began to lead them to participate in genocide.In 2005, theInternational Association of Genocide Scholarsaffirmedthat scholarly evidence revealedthe CUP "government of the Ottoman Empire began a systematic genocide of its Armenian citizens and unarmed Christian minority population. More than a millionArmenians were exterminated through direct killing, starvation, torture, and forced death marches. "

Assyrian genocide

Main articles:Assyrian genocideandLate Ottoman genocides

The genocide of Assyrian civilians began during theOttoman occupation of Azerbaijanfrom January to May 1915, during which massacres were committed by Ottoman forces and pro-OttomanKurds.Previously, many Assyrians were killed in the 1895massacres of Diyarbekir.However the violence worsened after the 1908Young Turk Revolution,despite Assyrian hopes that the new government would stop promoting anti-Christian Islamism.

The Sayfo occurred concurrently with and was closely related to the Armenian genocide.Motives for killing included a perceived lack of loyalty among some Assyrian communities to the Ottoman Empire and the desire to appropriate their land.At the1919 Paris Peace Conference,the Assyro-Chaldean delegation said that its losses were 250,000 (about half the prewar population); they later revised their estimate to 275,000 dead at theLausanne Conference of 1922–1923.

Turkish War of Independence

At the end of the War, with the collapse of Bulgaria andGermany's capitulation,Talaat Pasha and the CUP ministry resigned on 13 October 1918, and theArmistice of Mudroswas signed aboard a British battleship in the Aegean Sea.On 2 November, Enver, Talaat and Cemal fled from Istanbul into exile. Following the war, the Freedom and Accord Party regained control over the Ottoman government and conducting a purge of Unionists. Freedom and Accord rule was short-lived, and withMustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk)stirring up nationalist sentiment in Anatolia,the Empire soon collapsed.

Ideology

Materialism and positivism

See also:Ahmed Riza,Namık Kemal,Ziya Gökalp,andYusuf Akçura

Members of the Young Turks:İshak Sükuti,Serâceddin Bey,Tunalı Hilmi,Âkil Muhtar,Mithat Şükrü,Emin Bey, Lutfi Bey, Doctor Şefik Bey, Nûri Ahmed, DoctorReshidandMünif Bey

A guiding principle for the Young Turks was the transformation of their society into one in which religion played no consequential role, a stark contrast from the theocracy that had ruled the Ottoman Empire since its inception. However, the Young Turks soon recognized the difficulty of spreading this idea among the deeply religious Ottoman peasantry and even much of the elite. The Young Turks thus began suggesting that Islam itself was materialistic. As compared with later efforts by Muslim intellectuals, such as the attempt to reconcile Islam and socialism, this was an extremely difficult endeavor. Although some former members of the CUP continued to make efforts in this field after the revolution of 1908, they were severely denounced by theulema,who accused them of "trying to change Islam into another form and create a new religion while calling it Islam".

Positivism,with its claim of being a religion of science, deeply impressed the Young Turks, who believed it could be more easily reconciled with Islam than could popular materialistic theories. The name of the society, Committee of Union and Progress, was inspired by leading positivistAuguste Comte's mottoOrder and Progress.Positivism also served as a base for the desired strong government.

Centralized government

After the CUP took power in the1913 coupandMahmud Şevket Pasha's assassination, it embarked on a series of reforms in order to increase centralization in the Empire, an effort that had been ongoing since the last century'sTanzimatreforms under sultanMahmud II.Many of the original Young Turks rejected this idea, especially those that had formed the Freedom and Accord Party against the CUP.Other opposition parties against the CUP like Prince Sabahaddin'sPrivate Enterprise and Decentralization Leagueand the ArabOttoman Party for Administrative Decentralization,both of which made opposition to the CUP's centralization their main agenda.

The Young Turks wished to modernize the Empire's communications and transportation networks without putting themselves in the hands of European bankers. Europeans already owned much of the country's railroad system,and since 1881, the administration of the defaulted Ottoman foreign debt had been in European hands. During the World War I, the empire under the CUP was "virtually an economic colony on the verge of total collapse."

Nationalism

Further information:Millet,Ottomanism,Turanism,Turkish nationalism,Kemalism

Regardingnationalism,the Young Turks underwent a gradual transformation. Beginning with the Tanzimat with ethnically non-Turkish members participating at the outset, the Young Turks embraced the official state ideology:Ottomanism.However, Ottoman patriotism failed to strike root during the First Constitutional Era and the following years. Many ethnically non-Turkish Ottoman intellectuals rejected the idea because of its exclusive use of Turkish symbols. Turkish nationalists gradually gained the upper hand in politics, and following the 1902 Congress, a stronger focus on nationalism developed. It was at this time that Ahmed Rıza chose to replace the term "Ottoman" with "Turk," shifting the focus from Ottoman nationalism toTurkish nationalism.

Prominent Young Turks

Main article:List of Young Turks

Among the prominent leaders and ideologists were:

• Pamphleteers and activists
  • Tunalı Hilmi
  • Yusuf Akçura,aTatarjournalist with a secular national ideology, who was againstOttomanismand supported separation of church and state
  • Ayetullah Bey
  • Osman Hamdi Bey,an Ottoman-Greek painter and owner of the first specialized art school inIstanbul(founded 1883)
  • Emmanuel Carasso Efendi,a lawyer and a member of the prominentSephardic JewishCarasso family
  • Mehmet Cavit Bey,aDönmehfromThessalonica,Jewish,by ancestry but Muslim by religion since the 17th century, who wasMinister of Finance;he was hanged for treason in1926.
  • Abdullah Cevdet,aKurdishintellectual who is a supporter of biologicalmaterialismand secularism
  • Marcel Samuel Raphael Cohen (akaTekin Alp), born to a Jewish family in Salonica under Ottoman control (nowThessaloniki,Greece), became one of the founding fathers ofTurkish nationalismand an ideologue ofPan-Turkism.
  • Agah Efendi,founded the first Turkish newspaper and, aspostmaster,brought the postage stamp to the Ottoman Empire (although he died in 1885, he was honored for founding the first Turkish newspaper).
  • Ziya Gökalp,a Turkish nationalist fromDiyarbakir,publicistandsociologist,influenced by modernWestern European culture
  • Talaat Pasha,whose role before the revolution is not clear
  • Ahmed Riza,worked to improve the condition of the Ottoman peasantry; he served as an education independent.
• Military officers
  • Ahmed Niyazi Bey,initiator and a leader of the Young Turk Revolution
  • Enver Pasha,a leader of the Young Turk Revolution and later prominent Young Turk politician
  • Eyüp Sabri,a leader of the Young Turk Revolution
  • Bekir Fikri,a prominent participant in the Young Turk Revolution
  • Atıf Kamçıl,a prominent participant in the Young Turk Revolution
  • Subhi BeyAbaza(lived inSidon)
  • Reşat Bey

Aftermath and legacy

In the aftermath ofan assassination attemptby remaining Unionists,Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,is quoted on the front page of the 1 August 1926The Los Angeles Examineras denouncing the Young Turks and especially the CUP (the "Young Turk Party" ):

These left-overs from the former [Committee of Union and Progress] Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule. […] They have hitherto lived on plunder, robbery and bribery and become inimical to any idea, or suggestion to enlist in useful labor and earn their living by the honest sweat of their brow… Under the cloak of the [Progressive Republican Party] opposition party, this element, who forced our country into the Great War against the will of the people, who caused the shedding of rivers of blood of the Turkish youth to satisfy the criminal ambition of Enver Pasha, has, in a cowardly fashion, intrigued against my life, as well as the lives of the members of my cabinet.

HistorianUğur Ümit Üngör,in his bookThe Making of Modern Turkey:Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia,has claimed that the "Republican People's Party, which was founded by Mustafa Kemal, was the successor of CUP and continued ethnic cleansing policies of its predecessor in Eastern Anatolia until the year 1950. Thus, Turkey was transformed into an ethnically homogenous state."

As to the fate of theThree Pashas,two of them, Talaat Pasha andCemal Pasha,were assassinated by Armenian nationals shortly after the end of World War I while in exile in Europe duringOperation Nemesis,a revenge operation against perpetrators of the Armenian genocide.Soghomon Tehlirian,whose family was killed in the Armenian genocide,assassinated the exiled Talaat Pashain Berlin and was subsequently acquitted on all charges by a German jury.Cemal Pasha was similarly killed byStepan Dzaghikian,Bedros Der Boghosian,andArdashes Kevorkianfor "crimes against humanity"inTbilisi,Georgia.Enver Pasha, was killed in fighting against the Red Army unit under the command ofHakob Melkumiannear Baldzhuan in Tajikistan (then Turkistan).

List of Young Turk organizations

The following is a list of opposition groups founded until the Young Turk Revolution.

• Le Parti Constitutionnel en Turquie
• Comité Turco-Syrien
• Ottoman Union Society[İttihad-ı Osmanî Cemiyeti]
• Committee of Union and Progress[İttihad ve Terraki Cemiyeti]
• Society of the Ulema [Cemiyet-i İlmiye]
• Vatanperverân-ı İslâmiye Cemiyeti
• Comité d'Action Ottoman
• Comité du Parti Constitutionnel Ottoman à Constantinople
• Committee of Avenging Young Ottomans [İntikamcı Yeni Osmanlılar Cemiyeti]
• Lâ İlâhe İllallah
• Ottoman Revolutionary Party
• Parti de la Jeune Turquie
• Party of the Ottoman Liberals [Serbest Osmanlılar Fırkası]
• Patriotic Muslim's Association [Vatanperverân-ı İslâmiye Cemiyeti]
• Progress of Islamic Education Society [Terakki-i Maarif-i İslâmiye Cemiyeti]
• Restitution Committee [İstirdat Cemiyeti]
• Reşadiye Committee
• Society for Education [Tahsil Cemiyeti]
• Ottoman Freedom Lovers' Committee [Comité Libéral Ottoman, Osmanlı Hürriyetperverân Cemiyeti]
• Dawn of Ottoman Union Committee [Şafak Osmanlı İttihad Cemiyeti]
• Society of People Loyal to the Nation [Fedakârân-ı Millet Cemiyeti]
• Party Constitutionnel Ottoman
• Islamic Benevolence Society [Cemiyet-i Hayriye-i İslâmiye)
• Lights of the East [Envâr-ı Şarkiye]
• Neutral Young Ottomans [Bîtiraf Yeni Osmanlılar]
• New Association for Ottomans [Cemiyet-i Cedide-i Osmaniye]
• Ottoman Committee for the Future of the Fatherland and Nation [İstikbâl-i Vatan ve Millet Cemiyet-i Osmaniyesi]
• Ottoman Revolutionary Party [Osmanlı İhtilâl Fırkası]
• Ottoman Union and Action Branch [Osmanlı İttihad ve İcraat Şubesi]
• Private Initiative and Decentralization League
• Motherland and Liberty Committee
• Ottoman Freedom Society[Osmanlı Hürriyet Cemiyeti]

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Further reading

• Necati Alkan, "The Eternal Enemy of Islam: Abdullah Cevdet and the Baha'i Religion",Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,Volume 68/1, pp. 1–20; online atBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
• ——— (2008),Dissent and Heterodoxy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Reformers, Babis and Baha'is,Istanbul: ISIS Press.
• David Fromkin,A Peace to End All Peace
• M. Şükrü Hanioğlu,Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902–1908,Oxford University Press2001,ISBN0-19-513463-X
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External links

• Committee of Union and ProgressTurkey in the First World War (website)
• Young Turks and the Armenian Genocide(website)