The Young Turk Revolution and the Ottoman Empire

Noemi Levy-Aksu is an assistant professor at Bo?azici University (Istanbul), Department of History. She holds a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2010) and her dissertation on public order in Istanbul in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was published as a book in 2013 (Ordre et desordres dans la capitale ottomane, 1879-1909).Francois Georgeon is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) in Paris. He is the author of numerous articles and works, in particular Abdulhamid II (Paris, 2003) and Sous le signe des reformes. Etat et societe de l'Empire ottoman a la Turquie kemaliste (1789-1939) (Istanbul, 2012).

Introduction (Noemi Levy-Aksu and Francois Georgeon)
Part I New Fates: Revolutionary Heroes and Frustrated Hopes
1. The Heroes of Hurriyet: The Images in Struggle (Saadet Ozen)
2. The Logic of Enlightenment and the Realities of Revolution: Young Turks after the Young Turk Revolution (Erdal Kaynar)
3. Political Victims of the Old Regime under the Young Turk Regime (1908–11) (Ozgur Turesay)
4. The Implementation of the General Pardon after the Restoration of the Constitution and the Reactions in the Prisons (Fatmagul Demirel)
Part II Still the Revolution? Freedom and Power after 1908
5. The Time of Freedom, the Time of Struggle for Power: The Young Turk Revolution in the Albanian Provinces (Nathalie Clayer)
6. Social Unrest on the Aftermath of the 1908 Revolution: The Strike of the Aydin Railway in Izmir and its Repercussions (Vangelis Kechriotis)
7. Religion, Politics and Society in the Wake of the Young Turk Revolution: The ‘Ramadan of Freedom’ in Istanbul (Francois Georgeon)
8. 31 Mart: A Fundamentalist Uprising in Istanbul in April 1909? (Erik-Jan Zurcher)
9. Freedom versus Security: Regulating and Managing Public Gatherings after the Young Turk Revolution (Noemi Levy-Aksu)
Part III Constitutional Expectations and Political Horizons
10. Historicizing the 1908 Revolution: The Case of Jamanak (Aylin Kocunyan)
11. Continuity and Change in the 1909 Constitutional Revision: An Ottoman Imperial Nation Claims its Sovereignty (Ileana Moroni)
12. ‘Are They Not Our Workers?’ Socialist Hilmi and his Publication Istirak: An Appraisal of Ottoman Socialism (Meltem Toksoz)
Index