The Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress was a revolutionary group, secret society, and political party, active between 1889 and 1926 in the Ottoman Empire and in the Republic of Turkey. The CUP an
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Members of the Young Turks (from left to right): İshak Sükuti, Serâceddin Bey, Tunalı Hilmi, Âkil Muhtar, Mithat Şükrü, Emin Bey, Lutfi Bey, Doctor Şefik, Nûri Ahmed, Doctor Reshid and Celal Münif
Ahmed Rıza, prominent early member of the CUP
The 1st Young Turk Congress held in Paris in 1902. All the CUP executives are present in the photograph
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and statesperson who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He led sweeping re
Committee of Union and Progress
…war-crimes trials with support from the Allied powers. However, most former Unionists were able to join the burgeoning Turkish nationalist movement led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, ultimately continuing their political careers in the Republic of Turkey as members of Atatürk's Republican People's Party following the Turkish War…
Atatürk in 1932
The house where Atatürk was born in the Ottoman city of Salonica, now a museum
Atatürk's identity document with serial number 993 814
Cevat Pasha and Mustafa Kemal on the daily Tasvîr-i Efkâr dated 29 October 1915