The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

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.

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Young Turk was the second leg of a double for his owners and trainer Joseph O'Brien, a combination on the mark with Choungaya (Mark Walsh) in the opening maiden hurdle.

HE'S SEAN THE HUNT; RACING NEWS; Flanagan eyes winning comebackwith Kidd's Rashaan

The second is a memoir and critical evaluation of events during 1900 and 1901 by middle-aged Young Turk officer Islail Hakki.

The Orientalist Karl S'ssheim Meets the Young Turk Officer Isma'il Hakki Bey: Two Unexplored Sources from the Last Decade in the Reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II

But, as stated above, despite these shortcomings, the book is very good and should be part of investigating state-society relations during the Young Turk period.

The Young Turks and the Boycott Movement: Nationalism, Protest and the Working Classes in the Formation of Modern Turkey

After the July 1908 coup d'Eatat that removed Abdul Hamid II from power and restored the country to a constitutional monarchy under the Young Turk movement, Armenians mistakenly assumed that past horrors would never be repeated though growing Armenian nationalism -- ironically allied with the Young Turks -- led to the creation of a secret Turkish revolutionary organisation called the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), whose ranks were filled by military officers.

Modern-day Turkey rose on Armenian ashes

NEWLY appointed Pradesh Congress Committee chief Arun Yadav, a member of Rahul Gandhi's Young Turk team, faces the onerous task of stopping the BJP's juggernaut under Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while taking along a faction- ridden unit in Madhya Pradesh.

NEWMP CONG CHIEF WON'T HAVE IT EASY

New Delhi, July 1 -- Mahindra Two Wheelers, the relative Young Turk in the two-wheeler business trying to find its footing in the competitive arena has now launched its second motorcycle `Centuro' at Rs 45,000 (ex-show room price Delhi).

Mahindra launches Centuro at Rs 45,000

Campos provides a study of Palestine's different religious communities, not as separate, but rather as united in their support of the Young Turk revolution and as Ottoman citizens.

OTTOMAN BROTHERS: MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, AND JEWS IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY PALESTINE

Focusing on the final decades of the Ottoman Empire, with an introductory sketch of what went before, they explore Milli Ibrahim Pasa, Ziya Gokalp, and political struggle; the Armenian crisis of 1895; state, tribe, dynasty and the contest over Diyarbekir; land disputes in peasant petitions in post-revolutionary Diyarbekir; a preliminary investigation of some primary sources on Syriac Christians in the late 19th century; relations between Kurds and Syriacs and Assyrians; and Armenians and Kurds in the Young Turk era 1915-25.

Social relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915

ROD Stewart's no Young Turk any more but a meeting with old pal Ronnie Wood is always enough to roll back the years.

SAME OLD FACES; Still on the razz - and still looking good after decades of debauchery