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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.

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  • Greek lithograph celebrating the Ottoman Constitution

    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

  • Action Army marching on Makri Keuy

    Action Army marching on Bekirköy

  • Abdulhamid II at Selanik

    Abdul Hamid II at Selanik, where he was exiled after his dethronement in the 31 March Incident

  • Talaat Pasha (35663715211)

    Talât Pasha, undisputed leader of the CUP and the Three Pashas triumvirate. By 1917, he was both Grand Vizier and Interior Minister

  • Ottoman revenge map after Balkan wars

    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

  • Ziya Bey Gökalp

    Ziya Gökalp, ideologue of the committee and later member of Mustafa Kemal's Grand National Assembly

  • Enverpasa

    Enver Pasha, the Minister of War

  • Ottoman Empire 1914 fr

    Map of the Ottoman Empire on the eve of World War I

  • Deportation trains to Syria

    Adana Armenians being deported to Syria

  • Alfred Nossig meets CUP leaders, 1915

    Talât with CUP leaders Halil Bey and Enver Pasha and Zionist politician Alfred Nossig, 1915

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