Young Ottomans
The Young or New Ottomans ( Turkish Genç Osmanlılar or Yeni Osmanlılar ) were a secret organization founded in the Ottoman Empire in 1865 .
Shaped by nationalism as well as liberalism , its members, including senior civil servants, propagated a constitutional form of government. In 1867, some senior family members, such as Namık Kemal , Ziya Pascha and Ali Suavi , fled into exile in Western Europe to avoid the threat of government sanctions. To spread their point of view, they published the magazines Muhbir and Hürriyet in London and Paris . Due to increasing disagreements, the organization ultimately dissolved. After the death of Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha and their amnesty , most of the exiles returned in 1871 and took up state offices.
One generation later, the Young Turks continued the line of the Young Ottomans . Like the Young Ottomans, the Young Turks were concerned with saving the Ottoman Empire from ruin. Both movements saw the solution to this in introducing constitutionalism and making all minorities equal before the law.
literature
- Enver Koray: Yeni Osmanlılar. In: Belleten. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, Vol. 47, No. 186, April 1983, ISSN 0041-4255 , pp. 563-582.
- Şerif Mardin: The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought - A Study in the Modernization of Turkish Political Ideas. Princeton 1962 ( preview of 2000 edition).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu: The Young Turks and the Macedonian Question (1890-1918) . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2003, ISBN 9783486567458 , p. 59.
- ↑ İlber Ortaylı: İmparatorluğun En Uzun Yüzyılı. 26th edition. Timaş Yayınları, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-263-706-1 , p. 299 f.
- ^ Feroz Ahmad: İttihat ve Terakki 1908–1914. Translation by The Young Turks. P. 42.