Young Turks (redirected from Jon Turks)

Young Turks: see Ottoman Empire.

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Young Turks

 Turkish Jöntürkler

Coalition of young dissidents who ended the sultanate of the Ottoman Empire. Consisting of college students and dissident soldiers, the group succeeded in 1908 in forcing Abdülhamid II to reinstitute the 1876 constitution and recall the legislature. They deposed him the following year, reorganized the government, and began modernizing and industrializing Turkish society. They joined the Central Powers during World War I (1914–18). Facing defeat, they resigned a month before the war ended. See also Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; Enver Pasha; Midhat Pasha.

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Young Turks 

participants in the bourgeois revolutionary movement in Turkey (the Ottoman Empire) in the late 19th century through the early 20th. Their goal was to replace the autocratic rule of the sultan with a constitutional system. In a narrower sense, the Young Turks were the members of the organization known as the Committee of Union and Progress, which led the Young Turk revolution of 1908.