The Young Turks in Opposition

by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu

Book Overview

In 1908, the revolution of the Young Turks deposed the dictatorship of Sultan Abdulhamid II and established a constitutional regime that became the major ruling power in the Ottoman empire. But the seeds of this revolution went back much farther: to 1889, when the secret Young Turk organization the Committee of Union and Progress was formed. M. Sukru Hanioglu's landmark work is the story of the power struggles within the CUP and its impact on twentieth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195091159
• ISBN13: 9780195091151
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.5"