CAS HI 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Young Turk Revolution, Erzurum, Balkan Wars
13 Mar 2017
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1895- trebizond, urfa, erzerum, diarbekir, kharpert, kayseri. Young turk revolution and abdication of sultan abdul hamid ii, 1908/09. Umbrella organization that included a bunch of nationalities. Hurriyet ve itilaf (freedom and unity/liberal union party) [founded in 1911] Become more visible after the abdication of abdul hamid. Ittihad ve terakki (committee of union and progress, cup, 1906) [founded in 1889 as. Gain more power and popular support as the liberal group makes more mistakes. Some sort of altercation between turks and armenians which escalated into shooting. Police came and rather than stopping it, they joined in and started fighting. Lesson is that even if we have a constitution, we can still kill armenians. H rriyet ve itilaf (freedom and unity, or liberal union) government led grand vezir. 1911-1912- italy against turkey over tripolitania (libya) Balkan league (bulgaria, serbia, montenegro and greece) against turkey. Minister of war nazim pasha assassinated during the coup.
