A Genealogy of the Committee of Union and Progress

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  • 統一と進歩委員会の系譜
  • トウイツ ト シンポ イインカイ ノ ケイフ

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The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) was established in 1889 by Ibrahim Temo and his classmates at the Army Medical School in Istanbul to restore the 1876 Constitution, which had been suspended by Sultan Abdul Hamid II since 1878. However, under the suppression of the Sultan, CUP leaders took exile to Europe. The founder, Ibrahim Temo, moved to Constanza, Rumania.<br>The Osmanli Committee of Liberty, another Constitution-supporting organization established in Selanik in 1906, accepted a mission of the CUP in Paris, which was then under the leadership of Ahmet Riza, and changed its own name to CUP Selanik in the same year.<br>In 1908 Niyazi, a member of CUP Manastir, another CUP local, which had separated from CUP Selanik, started the rising for the revival of the Constitution that marked the beginning of the Young Turks Revolution.<br>After the 1908 uprising, the CUP Selanik leaders—Talat, Cemal, and Enver—in their attempt to gain recognized positions in the traditional regime, approached older statesmen in the Osmanli government. It was in accordance with this strategy that they decided to eliminate other CUP members, even its founder Ibrahim Temo, so to make CUP Selanik the only authoritative center of the CUP. As a result, Ibrahim Temo, who played a crucial role at the initial stage of the Young Turks Revolution, lost his power base in Ottoman Empire politics and later became a Senator in Rumania.

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