1912 Ottoman coup d'état
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The 1912 Ottoman coup d'état was a coup by military memorandum in the Ottoman Empire against the Committee of Union and Progress by a group of military officers calling themselves the Saviour Officers
Evvel Nail Efendi, member of the Saviour Officers and organizer of the coup
Selahaddin Bey, son of Liberal Union leader Kâmil Pasha and a member of the Saviour Officers
Mehmed V
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Mehmed V Reşâd was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch. He had little influence over government affairs and his ministries show
1912 Ottoman coup d'état
…down by a constitutionalist force which marched on the capital: the Action Army (Hareket Ordusu), and Abdul Hamid II was deposed for his half-brother Mehmed V. While the CUP was back in power and purged reactionaries from government, it was not fully in control, and elements in the country became alarmed at…
Formal portrait, 1915
Princes Reşad, Murad, and Kemaleddin
Padişah Reşad's Cülûs ceremony
Sultan Mehmed V, Enver Pasha, Grand Vizier Talât Pasha, and future Sultan Mehmed VI, hosting Wilhelm II in Constantinople during World War I.