Ibrahim Starova

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Ibrahim Temo

Ibrahim Starova (also Ibrahim Temo ; * 1865 in Struga as Ibrahim Ethem Sojliu ; † August 5, 1945 in Constanța ) was an Ottoman politician of Albanian origin.

Starova and four other Ottoman intellectuals (including Abdullah Cevdet ) founded the secret organization İttihad-ı Osmani Cemiyeti (later the Committee for Unity and Progress ) in the Military Medical Academy in Istanbul . This committee was the driving force behind the Young Turkish Revolution in 1908 against the ruler Abdülhamid the Second .

Starova was a member of the Society for Printing Albanian Scripts ( Albanian  Shoqëri e të shtypuri shkronja shqip ). His brother Nuri Sojliu was a signatory to the Albanian declaration of independence .

The middle school in his birthplace Struga is named after Ibrahim Temo.

literature

  • Hasan Kaleshi: Temo, Ibrahim . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 4. Munich 1981, pp. 282-286

Individual evidence

  1. a b George Walter Gawrych: The crescent and the eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913 . IB Tauris, 2006, ISBN 1-84511-287-3 .