The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire's 'imperial twilight'. As the Empire fell away, the beginnings of a young and radical Turkish nationalism took root in Anatolia. The summer of 1908 saw the 'Young Turks' attempt to revitalize Turkey with a 'constitutional revolution' aimed at reducing the power of the Ottoman Sultan, Abdul Hamid II. Drawing on popular support for the defense of the Ottoman Empire's Balkan territories, the Young Turks promised to build a nation from the people up, rather than from the top down. Here, Dogan Cetinkaya analyses the history of the...
The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire's 'imperial twilight'. As the Empire fell away, the beginnings of a young and radical...
