The Young Turk Revolution and the Ottoman Empire: The Aftermath of 1908

by Noémi Lévy-Aksu, François Georgeon

Overview

The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 reverberated across the Middle East and Europe and ushered in a new era for the Ottoman Empire. The initial military uprising in the Balkans triggered a constitutional revolution, in which social mobilization and the political aspirations of the Young Turks played a crucial role. The Young Turk Revolution and the Ottoman Empire provides a newanalysis of this process in the Balkans and the Anatolian provinces, outlining the transition from revolutionary euphoria to increasing tensions at local and central levels. Focusing on the compromises, successes and failures in the immediate aftermath of 1908, and based on new primary material and Ottoman-Turkish sources, this book represents an essential contribution to our understanding of late Ottoman and modern Turkey.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755601233
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/26/2019
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Noemi Levy-Aksu is an assistant professor at Bo?azici University (Istanbul), Department of History. She holds a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2010) and her dissertation on public order in Istanbul in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was published as a book in 2013 (Ordre et desordres dans la capitale ottomane, 1879-1909).Francois Georgeon is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) in Paris. He is the author of numerous articles and works, in particular Abdulhamid II (Paris, 2003) and Sous le signe des reformes. Etat et societe de l'Empire ottoman a la Turquie kemaliste (1789-1939) (Istanbul, 2012).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgements viii

List of Contributors ix

Introduction Noémi Lévy-Aksu Francois Georgeon 1

Part I New Fates: Revolutionary Heroes and Frustrated Hopes

1 The Heroes of Hürriyet: The Images in Struggle Saadet Özen 15

2 The Logic of Enlightenment and the Realities of Revolution: Young Turks after the Young Turk Revolution Erdal Kaynar 40

3 Political Victims of the Old Regime under the Young Turk Regime (1908-11) Özgür Türesay 67

4 The Implementation of the General Pardon after the Restoration of the Constitution and the Reactions in the Prisons Fatmagül Demirel 96

Part II Still the Revolution? Freedom and Power after 1908

5 The Time of Freedom, the Time of Struggle for Power: The Young Turk Revolution in the Albanian Provinces Nathalie Clayer 113

6 Social Unrest on the Aftermath of the 1908 Revolution: The Strike of the Aydin Railway in Izmir and its Repercussions Vangelis Kechriotis 153

7 Religion, Politics and Society in the Wake of the Young Turk Revolution: The 'Ramadan of Freedom' in Istanbul François Georgeon 175

8 31 Mart: A Fundamentalist Uprising in Istanbul in April 1909? Erik-Jan Zürcher 196

9 Freedom versus Security: Regulating and Managing Public Gatherings after the Young Turk Revolution Noémi Lévy-Aksu 212

Part III Constitutional Expectations and Political Horizons

10 Historicizing the 1908 Revolution: The Case of Jamanak Aylin Koçunyan 237

11 Continuity and Change in the 1909 Constitutional Revision: An Ottoman Imperial Nation Claims its Sovereignty Ileana Moroni 265

12 'Are They Not Our Workers?' Socialist Hilmi and his Publication Istirak: An Appraisal of Ottoman Socialism Meltem Toksöz 286

Index 318