Talaat Pasha - Young Turk Revolution

Young Turk Revolution

In 1908 he was dismissed for membership of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the conspiratorial nucleus of the Young Turk movement. However, after the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 he became deputy of Edirne in the Ottoman Parliament, and in July 1909 he was appointed Minister of Interior Affairs. He became Minister of Post and then Secretary-General of the CUP in 1912.

After the assassination of the Prime Minister Mahmud Sevket Pasa in July 1913, Talaat Pasha again became Minister of Interior Affairs. Talaat, with Enver Pasha and Djemal Pasha, formed a group called the Three Pashas. These men formed the triumvirate that ran the Ottoman government until the end of World War I in October, 1918.

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