The Regime and Power Struggle of the Unionists 1908-1913

"With the 1908 Revolution, the old world and the absolutist order to which these pashas were accustomed collapsed, but the new order that would replace it could not be established immediately. (…) The period between the opening of the parliament at the end of 1908 and the beginning of 1913 when the Unionists took back power from an illegitimate government by illegal methods "The political history is the history of the endless struggle between the supporters of the new regime, who are based on a newly formed parliament and trying to run things from here, and the monarchist forces who aim to re-establish the old order at all costs." A period that played a key role in the formation history of modern Turkey, the period 1908-1913. Aykut Kansu reveals the "meaning and importance" of this short period in his extraordinarily meticulous work, based on a rich accumulation of sources untouched by current historiography. In the book, we witness the tension of the entire process of change in politics, in the face of the fierce struggle between the Ottoman ancien regime, that is, the Old Order, which resisted wholeheartedly, and the 1908 Revolution. We are seeing the pain of politics no longer being an inter-elite activity carried out by state officials behind closed doors, but gradually becoming a part of the public. The book, which can be read with the pleasure of a political detective story, is, in this sense, a "mortar analysis" regarding the construction of Turkey's political culture.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 610

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 610

First Print Year: 2016

Language Turkish