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Term · Reform and the final era

Committee of Union and Progress

Also known as: İttihat ve Terakki, Unionists

The political organisation active from 1889 to 1918 that was decisive in the restoration of the constitution in 1908 and in the government that followed.

The committee was founded as a secret organisation against the rule of Abdülhamid II and brought about the restoration of the constitution in 1908. After 1913 it took over the government completely and was decisive in the Ottoman entry into the First World War. At the end of the war, in 1918, it dissolved itself.

Open the map in 1908

Related terms

• Constitutional eras

Events where this term appears

• 1909 · 31 March Incident
• 1912 · Albanian revolts (1908–1912)

Profiles that mention it

• Abdulhamid II
• Mehmed V

Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, article “İTTİHAT ve TERAKKÎ CEMİYETİ” (in Turkish); text condensed for the atlas.