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9 unusual facts about Committee of Union and Progress


31 March Incident

The countercoup attempted to put a temporary end to the nascent Second Constitutional Era in the Ottoman Empire and to the newly established influence of the Committee of Union and Progress, in order to re-affirm the position of the Sultan Abdulhamid II as absolute monarch.

Aziz Ali al-Misri

During his stay in the Balkans, al-Misri joined the ranks of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), at first a secret organization, more commonly known as the Young Turks.

Bursalı Mehmet Tahir Bey

1906 from the Committee of Union and Progress later 'what will become involved in the various dissident formations Mehmed Tahir Bey, the Ottoman Parliament Mebusanı 1908–1912' in the 1908 to 1911 he participated in his capacity as deputy of the Ontario.

Committee of Union and Progress

Consequently, both parties were required to be outlawed, although Kazim Karabekir, founder of the PRP, was eventually rehabilitated after the death of Atatürk and even served as speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

The Grand Vizier Mehmed Kamil Pasha and his minister of war, Nazım Pasha, became targets of the CUP, which overthrew them in a military coup d'état on 23 January 1913.

Ottoman general election, 1912

Although the two main parties competing in the election, the Committee of Union and Progress and the Liberal Entente, were largely secular in their political outlook, issues such as the Islamic religious piety of their candidates became sensationalized election topics.

Ottoman general election, 1919

The disbanding of the Committee of Union and Progress led to the creation of several parties, including the reformation of the Liberal Entente.

Şemsettin Günaltay

In 1915, Günaltay was elected to the Ottoman Parliament as deputy of Bilecik Province from the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), and remained member of the parliament until its dissolution.

Süleyman Askerî Bey

During the days he stayed in Monastir, he joined the Committee of Union and Progress and he married Fadime Hanım, who was an aristocrat of Filibe (present-day Plovdiv).


Liberalism in Turkey

Although liberalism played a minimal role in the modernization of the Ottoman Empire, the liberal movement was restricted with force by the Committee of Union and Progress and its successor the Republican People's Party after World War I.


see also

Freedom and Accord Party

The party was suppressed after the Bab-i Ali coup of January 1913, in which the Committee of Union and Progress's leadership, the Three Pashas, grabbed de facto control of the Empire.