Young Turk Revolution

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

Young Turks victory

Belligerents
Ittihat ve Terakki amblemi.jpg CUP
Flag of the IMRO.svg Left-wing of IMRO
Armenian Revolutionary Federation Flag.svg Dashnak Committee
Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844-1922).svg Ottoman Imperial Government
Commanders and leaders
Flag of the Young Turk Revolution.svg Ahmed Niyazi
Flag of the Young Turk Revolution.svg Ismail Enver
Flag of the Young Turk Revolution.svg Eyub Sabri
Flag of the Young Turk Revolution.svg Bekir Fikri
Flag of the Young Turk Revolution.svg Salahaddin Bey
Flag of the Young Turk Revolution.svg Hasan Bey
Imperial standard of the Ottoman Sultan.svg Abdul Hamid II
Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844-1922).svg Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844-1922).svg Shemsi Pasha  
Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844-1922).svg Tatar Osman Pasha  (POW)

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.

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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, Eyub Sabri, and other Unionist officers. 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.

Background

Sultan Abdul Hamid II was brought to the throne after a palace coup by the Young Ottomans over threw his brother Murad V in August 1876. Under Young Ottoman pressure, he promulgated a constitution and called for an election for a parliament. However after an unsuccessful war with Russia which ended in 1878, he suspended enforcement of the constitution and prorogued parliament. [1] After further consolidating his rule he governed as an absolutist monarch for the next three decades. This left a very small group of individuals able to partake in politics in the Ottoman Empire. [2]

Countering the conservative politics of Abdul Hamid II's reign was the amount of social reform that occurred during this time period. [1] The development of a more modernized, liberal environment in Turkey strengthened the culture, and also provided the grounds for the later rebellion. [1] Abdul Hamid's political circle was close-knit and ever-changing.

Worsening conditions

By the 20th century, the Hamidian system seemed bankrupt. Chronic intercommunal violence took hold of Ottoman Macedonia in what came known as the Macedonian struggle, as well as in Eastern Anatolia. Terrorist attacks by national liberation groups were a regular occurrences. Crop failures caused a famine in 1905, and wages hikes couldn't keep up with inflation. In response to these conditions, by the beginning of 1908, workers began to strike in the capital, which kept the authorities on edge. There were also rumors that the Sultan was in poor health on the eve of the revolution.[ citation needed ]

Young Turks movement

The origins of the revolution lie within the Young Turk movement, an opposition movement which wished to see Abdul Hamid II's authoritarianism regime dismantled. They wished to see a return to rule of law instead of royal arbitrary rule which would be accomplished through a constitution. Most Young Turks were exiled, however by between 1906–1908 many soldiers and officers stationed in the Balkans were inducted into the Committee of Union and Progress.[ citation needed ]

While the Young Turks were in consensus that some reform was required for Ottomanism, the idea of national unity among the ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire, they disagreed how far reform should go. The anti-Hamidians in the Ottoman Empire that joined the CUP were conservative liberal, imperialist, technocratists. [2] [3] To what extent they could have achieved praxis was dubious, as Ahmet Rıza, the exiled CUP leader, denounced revolutionary violence. Some wished for a federation of nations under an Ottoman monarch, as exemplified in Prince Sabahaddin's movement, though a coup attempt in 1903 quashed this faction.

A congress in December 1907 saw Rıza, Sabahaddin, and Karekin Pastermadjian of the Dashnak Party pledge to overthrow the regime by all means necessary.[ citation needed ]

Situation in Ottoman Macedonia

In response to the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903, the Ottoman Empire capitulated to international pressure to implement reforms in Macedonia under Great Power supervision, offending Muslims living in Macedonia and especially army officers. Another intervention in 1905 for reform in Macedonia was greeted with dread amongst the Muslim population.[ citation needed ]

The defense of their shrinking state had become a matter of intense professional pride within the Ottoman military which caused them to join revolutionary secret societies like the CUP. Many Unionist officers of the Ottoman Third Army based in Salonika feared of a partition of Macedonia. A desire to preserve the state, not destroy it, motivated the revolutionaries. In 1907 a new anti-Hamidian secret society was founded in Salonica known as the Ottoman Freedom Committee merged with the CUP, finally giving the organization of exiles a potent foothold in the Empire.

Revolution

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Flag of the Young Turks: Adalet, İttihat, Uhuvvet, Müsavat, Hürriyet, meaning "Justice, Unity, Brotherhood, Equality, Freedom"

The event that triggered the Revolution was a meeting in the Baltic port of Reval between Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Nicholas II of Russia on 9-10 June, 1908. Though these imperial powers had experienced relatively few major conflicts between them over the previous hundred years, an underlying rivalry, otherwise known as "the Great Game", had exacerbated the situation to such an extent that resolution was sought. The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 brought shaky British-Russian relations to the forefront by solidifying boundaries that identified their respective control in Persia (eastern border of the Empire) and Afghanistan. It was rumored that another reform package would be imposed on the Ottoman Empire which would detach Macedonia.

With the newspaper reports of the meeting, the CUP's Monastir (Bitola) branch decided to act. A memorandum was drawn up by Unionists that was distributed to the European consuls which rejected foreign intervention and nationalist activism. They also called for constitutional government and equality amongst Ottoman citizens. [4]

With no action taken by the Great Powers or the government, the revolt began in earnest in the first week of July 1908. [5] On July 3 Major Ahmed Niyazi began the revolution by raiding the Resne (Resen) garrison cache of money, arms and ammunition and assembled a force of 160 volunteers to the mountains surrounding the city. From there he visited many villages around the predominantly Muslim Albanian area to recruit for his band and warn of impending European intervention and Christian supremacy in Macedonia. Niyazi would highlight the government's (not the sultan) weakness and corruption as the reason for this crisis, and that a constitutional framework would deliver the systematic reform necessary to negate Western intervention. Niyazi's Muslim Albanian heritage worked to his advantage in this propaganda campaign which also involved settling clan rivalries. When touring Christian Bulgarian and Serbian villages, where he highlighted that the constitution would bring about equality between Christians and Muslims, and was able to recruit Bulgarians into his force. [4]

Other Unionists, following Niyazi's example, took to the mountains of Macedonia: Ismail Enver in Tikveş, Eyub Sabri in Ohri (Ohrid), Bekir Fikri in Grebene (Grevena), and Salahaddin and Hasan Bey in Kırçova (Kičevo). In each post office the rebels came across, they transmitted their demands to the government in Constantinople (Istanbul): reinstate the constitution and reconvene the parliament otherwise the rebels would march on the capital. [4]

On July 7, Şemsi Pasha arrived at Monastir. Abdul Hamid II dispatched him from Mitroviçe (Mitrovica) with two battalions to suppress the revolt in Macedonia. An ethnic Albanian, he also recruited a pro-government band of Albanians on the way. [6] He informed the palace of his arrival in the city at the local telegraph station, and as he walked out of the building he was assassinated by a Unionist fedai , Âtıf Kamçıl. His Albanian bodyguards and the Pasha's aide de camp (who was his son) were also CUP members. Tatar Osman Pasha, Şemsi's replacement, was captured soon after. On July 22, Monastir fell to the rebels, and Niyazi proclaimed the constitution to the citizens. [7] That day Grand Vizier Mehmed Ferid Pasha was sacked for Said Pasha.

Elsewhere, Hayri Pasha, field marshal of the Third Army, was threatened by the committee into a passive cooperation. At this point, the mutiny which originated in the Third Army in Salonica took hold of the Second Army based in Adrianople (Edirne) as well as Anatolian troops sent from Smyrna (Izmir).

The rapid momentum of the Unionist's organization, intrigues within the military, discontent with Abdul Hamid's autocratic rule, and a desire for the Constitution meant the sultan and his ministers were compelled to capitulate. Under pressure of being deposed, on the night of 23-24 July, 1908, Abdul Hamid II issued the İrade-i Hürriyet , reinstating the Constitution and calling an election to great jubilation. Celebrations were held intercommunally, as Muslims and Christians attended celebrations together in both churches and mosques. Armed bands of Serbian, Bulgarian, and Greek chetas , one time enemies of each other and the government, took part in celebrations before ceremoniously turning in their firearms to the government. [4] Niyazi, Enver, and the other Unionist revolutionaries were declared "heroes of liberty", and Ahmed Rıza, returning form his exile was declared "father of liberty".

Aftermath

Enver Bey and Niyazi Bey from a postcard in 1908. Enver bey and Niyazi bey postcard 1908.jpg
Enver Bey and Niyazi Bey from a postcard in 1908.

Impact on the Second Constitutional Era

July 24, 1908 started the Ottoman Empire's Second Constitution Era. [8] Importantly, the CUP did not overthrow the government and nominally committed itself to democratic ideals and constitutionalism. [9] Between the revolution and the 31 March Incident, the CUP's emerged victorious in a power struggle between the palace (Abdul Hamid II) and the liberated Sublime Porte. Until the December election, the CUP dominated the empire as what Şükrü Hanioğlu deemed a comité de salut public. [10]

Following the revolution, many organizations, some of them previously underground, established political parties. [11] The many political currents expressed amongst the Young Turks lead to disagreements on what liberty meant. Among these the CUP and the Liberty Party and later on Freedom and Accord Party, were the major ones. There were smaller parties such as Ottoman Socialist Party and the Democratic Party. On the other end of the spectrum were the ethnic parties which included; People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section), Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs, Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party in Palestine (Poale Zion), Al-Fatat, and Armenians organized under Armenakan, Hunchakian and Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF).

The 1908 Ottoman general election took place during November and December 1908. The candidates backed by the CUP won 60 seats in the parliament. The Senate of the Ottoman Empire reconvened for the first time in over 30 years on 17 December 1908 with the living members like Hasan Fehmi Pasha from the First Constitutional Era. The Chamber of Deputies' first session was on 30 January 1909.

While the Young Turk Revolution had promised organizational improvement, once instituted, the government at first proved itself rather disorganized and ineffectual. Although these working-class citizens had little knowledge of how to control a government, they imposed their ideas on the Ottoman Empire. The CUP had Said Pasha removed from the premiership in less than two weeks for Kâmil Pasha. His quest to revive the Sublime Porte of the Tanzimat proved fruitless when CUP soon censored him with a no-confidence vote in parliament, [12] [13] thus he was replaced by Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha who was more inline with the committee's ways.

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Greek demonstration in Monastir in favour of the constitution

Abdul Hamid maintained his throne by conceding its existence as a symbolic position, but in April 1909 attempted to seize power (see 31 March Incident) by stirring populist sentiment throughout the Empire. The Sultan's bid for a return to power gained traction when he promised to restore the caliphate, eliminate secular policies, and restore the Sharia-based legal system. On 13 April 1909, army units revolted, joined by masses of theological students and turbaned clerics shouting, "We want Sharia", and moving to restore the Sultan's absolute power. The CUP once again assembled a force in Macedonia to march on the capital and restored parliamentary rule after crushing the uprising on 24 April 1909. The deposition of Abdul Hamid II in favor of Mehmed V followed, and the palace ceased to be a significant player in Ottoman politics.

New elites

These developments caused the gradual creation of a new governing elite. No longer was power exercised by a small governing elite surrounding the Sultan, the Sublime Porte's independence was restored and a new young clique of bureaucrats and officers gradually took control of politics for the CUP. [14] The parliament confirmed through popular sovereignty both old elites as well as new ones. In 1909 a purge in the army demoted many "Old Turks" while elevating "Young Turk" officers.

The post-revolution CUP undertook a consolidation of itself in order to define its ideology. Ahmed Rıza and the external committeemen would be sidelined in favor of the new professional organizers, Mehmed Talât, Doctor Nazım, and Bahaeddin Şakir. The organization's home being Rumeli, delegations were sent to local chapters in Asia and Tripolitania that more firmly attached them to the organizations new headquarters in Salonica. The CUP would dominate Ottoman politics for the next ten years, save for brief interruption from 1912–1913. [10]

Proclamation of the Constitution in Eleftherias Square, Salonica Proclamation of the Constitution of the Ottoman Empire in Thessaloniki, 24 July 1908.png
Proclamation of the Constitution in Eleftherias Square, Salonica

The revolution also served as a downfall for the millet elites which benefited from the Hamidian system. The Dashnaks, previously outlawed, became the main representative of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire, [15] replacing the pre-1908 Armenian amira class, which had been composed of merchants, artisans, and clerics. The Armenian National Assembly used the moment to oust Patriarch Malachia Ormanian for Matthew II Izmirlian. The elite Bulgarian community of Istanbul were similarly displaced by a nationalist-intellectual class involved with IMRO, as was the Albanian Hamidian elite. [16] Arab and Albanian elites, which were favored under the Hamidian regime, found many privileges lost under the CUP. In some communities, such as the Jews (cf. Jews in Islamic Europe and North Africa and Jews in Turkey), reformist groups emulating the Young Turks ousted the conservative ruling elite and replaced them with a new reformist one. [16] Social institutions like notable families and houses of worship lost influence to the burgeoning world of party politics. Political clubs, committees, and parties were now the main actors in politics. [16] Though these non-Turkish nationalists cooperated with the Young Turks against the sultan, they would turn on each other in the Second Constitutional Era over the question of Ottomanism, and ultimately autonomy and separatism.

Cultural and international impact

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Postcard for the new constitution in Ottoman Turkish and French

Two European powers took advantage of the chaos by decreasing Ottoman sovereignty in the Balkans. Bulgaria, de jure an Ottoman vassal but de facto all but formally independent, declared its independence on the 5th of October. The day after, Austria-Hungary officially annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina which used to be de jure Ottoman territory but de facto occupied by Austria-Hungary. The fall of Abdul Hamid II foiled the rapprochement between Serbia and Montenegro and the Ottoman Empire which set the stage for their alliance with Bulgaria and Greece in the Balkan Wars.

The revolution continued to destabilize the subservient Sharifate of Mecca as several claimed the title until November 1908, when Hussein bin Ali Pasha came to power.

Following the revolution a new found faith in Ottomanism was found in the various millets. Violence in Macedonia ceased as rebels turned in their arms and celebrated with citizens. An area from Scutari to Basra was now acquainted with political parties, nationalist clubs, elections, constitutional rights, and civil rights. [17]

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Demonstration in the Sultanahmet

The revolution and CUP's work greatly impacted Muslims in other countries. The Persian community in Istanbul founded the Iranian Union and Progress Committee. The leaders of the Young Bukhara movement were deeply influenced by the Young Turk Revolution and saw it as an example to emulate. Indian Muslims imitated the CUP oath administered to recruits of the organization. Discontent in the Greek military saw a secret revolutionary organization explicitly modeled from the CUP which overthrew the government in the Goudi Coup, bringing Eleftherios Venizelos to power. [17]

In the 2010 alternate history novel Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld, the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 fails, igniting a new revolution at the start of World War I.

Historiography

Historian Ronald Grigor Suny states that the revolution had no popular support and was actually "a coup d'état by a small group of military officers and civilian activists in the Balkans". [18] Hanioğlu states the revolution a watershed moment in the late Ottoman Emire but it was not a popular constitutional movement. [19]

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