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
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
The Young Turks were a broad opposition movement in the late Ottoman Empire to the absolutist régime of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The prominent organisation within the movement was the Committee of Union
Second Constitutional Era
…Deputies, during the empire's twilight years. Alternative end dates for era include 1912 or 1913. The rule of Sultan Abdulhamid II had been opposed by the Young Turks, an underground movement of reformists which called for the restoration of constitutional monarchy. In 1908, a faction within the Young Turks called…
Young Turks who attended the congress held in Paris under the chairmanship of Prince Sabahattin between 4–9 February 1902
Before the Ottoman opposition congress, which was held in the house of Germain Antoin Lefevre-Pontalis [fr; sv] a member of the Institut de France, on 4 February 1902, and was closed to the public, with the participation of 47 delegates the Young Turk Committee
Young Turks flyer with the slogan Long live the fatherland, long live the nation, long live liberty written in Ottoman Turkish and French
Young Turk (CUP) Committee in 1909