Committee of Union and Progress facts for kids
The Committee of Union and Progress was a political group. It was made by Bahaeddin Şakir in 1906 during the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The group was one of the Young Turks. This group came to power between 1908 and 1918. At the end of World War I most of its members were court-martialled by the sultan Mehmed VI and imprisoned. The remnants of the organization were eliminated from the Republic of Turkey during the "assassination of president" trials in 1926.
Images for kids
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Lithograph celebrating the Young Turk Revolution. Enver and Niyazi are depicted breaking the chains of Lady Liberty, who is helped up by the Young Ottomans
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Abdul Hamid II at Selanik, where he was exiled after his dethronement in the 31 March Incident
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The Revenge Map, published by the Society of Muslim Refugees from Rumeliya. In black is the part of the Ottoman Empire lost during the Balkan Wars from which many Muhacirs fled
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Ziya Gökalp, ideologue of the committee and later member of Mustafa Kemal's Grand National Assembly
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Enver Pasha, the Minister of War
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Map of the Ottoman Empire on the eve of World War I
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Talât with CUP leaders Halil Bey and Enver Pasha and Zionist politician Alfred Nossig, 1915