The Şehzadebaşı raid was a British Indian Army operation to capture an Ottoman Army barracks in Constantinople which took place as part of a larger operation by the Allied occupational authorities to
Photograph of an Ottoman soldier killed during the raid
The Second Constitutional Era was the period of restored parliamentary rule in the Ottoman Empire between the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the 1920 retraction of the constitution, after the dissolut
Şehzadebaşı raid
…War of Independence and the Gallipoli campaign, which "added new color to the ethnocentric and nationalist texture of everyday life in modern Turkey." Second Constitutional Era…
The Old Darülfünun building in which the Turkish Parliament held its Sittings at Constantinople. The Illustrated London News 1877
Opening of the 1908 Ottoman Parliament
Mehmed V Reşâd's reception in the train station of Monastir (modern Bitola), 1911