YOUNG TURKS
The Young Turks, revolutionists who seized the decrepit and corrupt Ottoman Government had many modern ideas, far ahead of many other nations. In this quotation they established state-sponsored public schools, free education and open access to all. However, their revolution deteriorated and the liberality implicit in this proclamation gave way to murderous ideology culminating on ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire.
The Young Turks was a constitutionalist broad opposition movement in the late Ottoman Empire against Sultan Abdul Hamid II's absolutist regime. The most powerful organization of the movement, and the most conflated, was the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), though its goals, strategies, and membership continuously morphed throughout Abdul Hamid's reign. By the 1890s, the Young Turks were mainly a loose and contentious network of exiled intelligentsia that made a living by selling their newspapers to secret subscribers.
