Assigned Reading:

M. Şükrü Hanioğlu: “The Second Constitutional Period.” The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 4, 62-111.

Primary Source:

Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, A Man Searching for the Water, excerpt translated by Philipp Wirtz.

Seminar Questions:

• How did the Ottoman state react to political opposition in the years before 1908?
  
• Was the Young Turk movement a successful force for reform?

Further Reading:

Ahmad, Feroz: The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics. Repr. New York 2010.

Der Matossian, Bedross: “The Young Turks Revolution: Its Impact on Religious Politics of Jerusalem (1908-1912).” Jerusalem Quarterly 40 (2009/10), 18-33.

Der Matossian, Bedross, Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Stanford UP, 2014).

Fleet, Kate and Boyar, Ebru: A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul. (Cambridge UP, 2010), chapter 9.

Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü: A Brief History of the Ottoman Empire. Princeton 2008, chapters 5 and 6.

Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü: Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902-1908. Oxford 2001.

Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü: The Young Turks in Opposition. New York 1995.

Kechriotis, Vangelis: “Greek-Orthodox, Ottoman Greeks or just Greeks? Theories of Coexistence in the Aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution.” Études Balkaniques 41 i (2005), 51-72.

Sohrabi, Nader, Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran (Cambridge UP, 2014).

Zürcher, Jan Erik: The Unionist Factor: The Role of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926. Leiden 1984.