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Ittihad Ve Terraki
The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) ( ota, اتحاد و ترقى جمعيتی, translit=İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti, script=Arab), later the Union and Progress Party ( ota, اتحاد و ترقى فرقهسی, translit=İttihad ve Terakki Fırkası, script=Arab), was a secret revolutionary organization and political party active between 1889 and 1926 in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The foremost faction within the Young Turk movement, it instigated the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, which ended absolute monarchy and began the Second Constitutional Era. From 1913 to 1918, the CUP ruled the empire as a one-party state and committed genocides against the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian peoples as part of a broader policy of ethnic erasure during the late Ottoman period. The CUP was associated with the wider Young Turk movement, and its members have often been referred to as Young Turks, although the movement produced other political parties as well. Within t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithat Şükrü Bleda
Mithat Şükrü Bleda (1874 – 19 February 1956) was a Turkish politician, who was a founding member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which he also served as its party secretary. Biography Midhat Şükrü was born in Thessaloniki, Selanik (Thesalonika). After graduating from the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, civil service academy, he took part in the founding of the Committee of Union and Progress. He served as its general secretary between 1911- 1917. He was also a deputy in the Ottoman parliament, representing Serres, Drama, Greece, Drama, and Burdur in 1908 Ottoman general election, 1908, 1912 Ottoman general election, 1912, and 1914 Ottoman general election, 1914 respectively. Between 1935 - 1950 he represented Sivas in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Grand National Assembly. He died in Istanbul in 1956, and was buried in the Monument of Liberty, Istanbul, Monument of Liberty upon his will. His memoirs were published under the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
