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Topic 5: The Young Turk Period and WWI

Sept 30-Oct 7 (no class October 2)

Feroz, Chapter 3: From Empire to Nation 1908-1923

Paul Dumont "Said Bey: The Everyday Life of and Istanbul Townsman at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century,"
Paul Dumont "Said Bey: The Everyday Life of and Istanbul Townsman at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century," in the Modern Middle East, 271-288.

Kayali, Hasan. “Elections and the Electoral Process in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1919.”
Kayali, Hasan. “Elections and the Electoral Process in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1919.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 27, no. 3, 1995, pp. 265–286. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/176251. Accessed 6 Jan. 2020.Copy

Betty Anderson on late Ottoman Era thru WWI
This is taken from the text book I use on the MME class. She does a great job at summing up the late Ottoman era. Have a read!
Stamatopoulos, Dimitrios “From Millets to Minorities in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire: an Ambiguous Modernization”
Stamatopoulos, Dimitrios “From Millets to Minorities in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire: an Ambiguous Modernization” in Ellis, Steven G., Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, and Ann Katherine Isaacs. 2006. Citizenship in historical perspective. Pisa [Italy]: Edizioni Plus, Pisa Univ. Press.

Topic 5 Images

Christidis, Sotirios. Greek Lithograph Celebrating the Young Turk Revolt in 1908 and the Re-Introduction of a Constitutional Regime in the Ottoman Empire. 1908. Self-scanned.

A lithograph celebrating the Young Turk Revolution, featuring the sources of inspiration of the movement, Midhat Pasha, Prince Sabahaddin, Fuad Pasha and Namık Kemal, military leaders Niyazi Bey and Enver Pasha, and the slogan liberty, equality, fraternity ("hürriyet, müsavat, uhuvvet")

1908 Ottoman Empire postcard in Ottoman Turkish and French

Postcard commemorating the Young Turk Revolution of 24 July 1908, with the slogan "Long live the fatherland, long live the nation, long live liberty" in Ottoman Turkish and French, and a picture of Enver Pasha. In modern Turkish: "Yaşasın Vatan - Yaşasın Millet - Yaşasın Hürriyet!"