Ahmed Niyazi Bey

Ahmed Niyazi

Niyazi Bey with his soldiers

Ahmed Niyazi Bey ( Turkish Resneli Ahmet Niyazi Bey ; * 1873 in Resen , Macedonia , † April 17, 1913 in Vlora , Albania ) was an Ottoman officer and one of the leaders of the Young Turkish Revolution of 1908.

Life

Ahmed Niyazi was born in the Macedonian then Ottoman city of Resne (now Resen ), which is why he was also called Resneli . He joined the Ottoman army early , went through the cadet institute and initially achieved the rank of lieutenant. He fought in the Greco-Ottoman War of 1896/97 and was promoted to first lieutenant. The highest rank he achieved was that of kolağası . During the growth of the political movement of the Young Turks in the Ottoman Empire, he contacted the “ Committee for Unity and Progress ” ( İttihad ve Terakki Fırkası ) in Manastır (today Bitola ).

On July 3, 1908, he moved with 200 soldiers and 200 Başı Bozuks and civilians from the Resen barracks into the mountains and kicked off the successful Constitutional Revolution of the Young Turks, through which the Ottoman Constitution came into force again after thirty years of factual ineffectiveness. On the day of his revolt, he wrote a declaration of the revolt against the sultan's palace to the governor of Manastır and to the inspector general of Macedonia Hilmi Pasha . In his statement, he described himself as the "leader of 200 men" and not as a member of the İttihat ve Terakki , which suggests that the Ittihad committee did not yet control the revolt, but that this uprising arose from Niyazi's own initiative. Niyazi was followed by the mayor of Resne Hoca Cemal, finance inspector Tahsin Efendi and police chief Tahir Bey, as well as several lower-ranking officers. Among them was the future Minister of War Enver .

Ahmed Niyazi Bey was shot dead by the Sultan's Guard on April 17, 1913 in Vlora, on the way to Istanbul.

literature

• Ahmet Niyazi: Hatırat-ı Niyazi , Istanbul 1910 ( Memoirs of Niyazi )
• Ahmet Niyazi: Balkanlar'da Bir Gerillacı Hürriyet Kahramanı Resneli Niyazi Bey'in Anıları . Istanbul 1975 ( memoirs of Resneli Niyazi Bey, a guerrilla fighter and freedom hero in the Balkans [new edition of the original from 1910])
• Feroz Ahmad İttihat ve Terakki (1908–1914) , Istanbul 1971, p. 22ff. (Original: The Young Turks - The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics 1908-1914 , Oxford 1969, ISBN 0-19-821475-8 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Feroz Ahmad İttihat ve Terakki (1908–1914) , p. 24 with reference to
   * Niyazi Hatırat-ı Niyazi , p. 236
   * İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı Belleten Volume XX / 77 (1956), p. 107–108, section 1908 Yılında İkinci Meşrutiyetin Ne Suretle İlan Edildigine Dair Vesikalar
   * İsmail Hami Danişmend İzahlı Osmanlı Tarihi Kronolojisi , Bd. 4, Istanbul 1961, p. 361
   * Ahmet Bedevi Kuran Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda İnffiadele , Istanbul 195.
   * Letter from the military attaché Surtees to Barclay in Istanbul on July 9, 1908, as an attachment to the secret letter from Barclay to Gray from Tarabya on July 9, 1908 (archives of the British Foreign Office)
   * Ali Cevat İkinci Meşrutiyetin İlanı ve Otuzbir Mart Hadisesi , Ankara 1960, p. 159
   * Edward Frederick Knight The awakening of Turkey , London 1909, p. 153ff.

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