Young Turk Revolution
In April 1908, the Committee of Union and Progress (more commonly called the Young Turks), a political party opposed to the absolute rule of Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II, led a rebellion against their ruler. The pro-reform Young Turks deposed the Sultan by July 1909, replacing him with the ineffective Mehmed V.
In the following years, various constitutional and political reforms were instituted, but the decay of the Ottoman Empire continued.
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