74.3 The Red Sultan and the Young Turks Revolution

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Ottoman Empire is in disarray and its treasury bankrupt. Under Sultan Abdul Hamid, the Red Sultan, there are violent suppression of uprisings of the Armenians in Anatolia. And in the Balkans the Macedonians and Albanians appeal for independence. A rebellion in Macedonia leads to the The Young Turk revolution and the overthrow of the sultan.

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0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. Hello and welcome to a History of Europe Key Battles podcast. This is the third part on the First World War.
1:06.2	It is entitled The Red Sultan and the Young Turks Revolution.
1:11.6	Today I will be looking at the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 19th century and the first years of July 1908, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II,
1:52.0	convened his cabinet in the Yerlides Palace, perched on a hill overlooking the Bospira
1:59.0	Straits on the European side of Constantinople.
2:03.2	Age 65, he faced the greatest crisis of his reign of so far over 30 years.
2:10.3	The Ottoman army in Macedonia, a volatile Balkan region, far larger than the modern state of that name,
2:17.1	straddling the modern states of
2:18.4	Greece, Bulgaria and Macedonia, had arisen in rebellion, demanding the restoration of the
2:23.5	constitution and a return to parliamentary rule. One of the first measures taken by Abdul-Hammed
2:31.6	after acceding to the throne had been to promulgate the
2:34.8	empire's first constitution, the culmination of four decades of government-led reforms known as
2:41.1	the Tanzamat.
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