AtD p. 843 Young Turks

[Mark Kohut]

The Young Turks...
Young Turks
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This article is about the Turkish nationalist constitutionalist movement.
 
The "24th July" celebration of the new constitutionThe Young Turks (Turkish: Jön Türkler (plural), from French: Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favoring reforming the administration of the Ottoman Empire. Through the Young Turk Revolution, their movement brought about the second constitutional era. In 1889, starting first among military students and then extending to other sections, the movement initiated against the monarchy of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Establishing officially, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) in 1906, gaining most of the Young Turks, the movement built a rich tradition of dissent that shaped the intellectual, political and artistic life of the late Ottoman period (decline, dissolution).
  The Three Pashas of the Young Turks ruled the Ottoman Empire from the Coup of 1913 until the end of World War I.

  ...see bloodless revolution of 1908 in
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos132.htm
   
  Young Turks: The term has come to refer to a young ambitious, impatient group challenging an older, established leadership within an organization, political party or government. Wikipedia

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