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Young Turks Group of Turks who wished to remodel the Ottoman Empire and make it a modern European state with a liberal constitution. Their movement began in the 1880s with unrest in the army and universities. In 1908, a Young Turk rising, led by Enver Pasha and his chief of staff Mustata Kemal (Atatürk), deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid II and replaced him with his brother, Muhammad V. Following a 1913 coup d'etat, Enver Pasha became a virtual dictator. Under Atatürk, the Young Turks merged into the Turkish Nationalist Party.

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Young Turks A number of late 19th- and early 20th-century reformers in the OTTOMAN EMPIRE who carried out the Revolution of 1908. The most prominent party was the Committee of Union and Progress, which seized power in 1913 and (under the triumvirate of ENVER PASHA, Talat Pasha, and Jamal Pasha) ruled the Ottoman empire until 1918, supporting the Central Powers in World War I.

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