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Bluffer’s Guide OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 3-23 JULY 1908

The Young Turk Revolution

Did

you know?

The ‘31MarchIncident’
coup,actuallyoccurredon13
April. In 1909,the Ottoman
Empirewas using the
older Rumicalendar
system.

Timeline

1889 1906 1907 FEBRUARY 1908

Ottoman students Young educated Both groups join in Austria announces a
conspire against Turkish offi cers of the a shaky alliance railway link through
the sultan, but are Third Army Corps with the League Novi Pazar. This
discovered and garrisoned in Salonika, of Private would bring the
flee to Paris. Two Macedonia, form Initiative and western Balkans
years later, they another revolutionary Decentralisation, under Austrian
form the Committee group called the led by the aristocracy infl uence, threatening
of Union and Progress. Ottoman Liberty Society. under Prince Sabahaddin. the Ottoman Empire.
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