Modern era · 1908

Young Turk Revolution

The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908; Turkish: Jön Türk Devrimi) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Revolutionaries belonging to the Internal Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Constitution, recall the parliament, and schedule an election.

Young Turk Revolution
Young Turk Revolution · Charles Roden Buxton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
24 Jul 1908
Where
Ottoman Empire
Era
Modern

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