Young Turks Ottoman Empire
The young ottomans turkish.
Young turks ottoman empire. Jön türkler from french. With this revolution the young turks helped to establish. Young ottomans turkish yeni osmanlilar secret turkish nationalist organization formed in istanbul in june 1865. The young ottomans made an agreement with abdulhamid ii to start the first ottoman constitution.
The ottoman empire began at the very end of the 13th century with a series of raids from turkic warriors known as ghazis led by osman i a prince whose father ertugrul had established a power base in söğüt near bursa turkey osman and his warriors took advantage of a declining seljuq dynasty which had been severely weakened by the mongol invasions. The young turk revolution of 1908 reverberated across the middle east and europe and ushered in a new era for turkey. At the time of the population exchange between greece and turkey in 1923 some among the thessaloniki dönmeh tried to be recognized as non muslims to avoid being forced. But the young turks themselves led by enver pasha were in fact a diverse group revolutionary thinkers conservative politicians proto europeans and ottoman nationalists.
According to some several leading members of the young turk movement a group of constitutional monarchist revolutionaries who brought down the ottoman empire were dönmeh. The young turks were especially impressed with the way the japanese had been able to embrace western science and technology without losing their eastern spiritual essence an example that was especially inspiring to them because many in the ottoman empire believed that the embrace of western science and technology were diametrically opposed. Les jeunes turcs was a political reform movement in the early 20th century that favored the replacement of the ottoman empire s absolute monarchy with a constitutional government. They were a group of reformers young intellectuals like the young turks but their ideology was centered around islam in the ottoman empire.
They led a rebellion against the absolute rule of sultan abdul hamid ii in the 1908 young turk revolution. A forerunner of other turkish nationalist groups see young turks the young ottomans favoured converting the turkish dominated multinational ottoman empire into a more purely turkish state and called for the creation of a constitutional government.