Episodes
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Committee of Union and Progress...
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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Before there were Young Turks, there were Young Ottomans. But just to make it extra confusing for those of us living in the future, everyone called them Young Turks. "Long Live the Fatherland!"
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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As the Hamidian Massacres raged throughout the Ottoman Empire, a small group of Armenian Dashnaks decided to takeover the Imperial Ottoman Bank, hoping that the Great Powers might finally come to their aid.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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From 1894-1896, widespread chaos and violence gripped the Ottoman Empire amidst the Hamidian Massacres. Armenian freedom fighters, known as the fedayi, would do everything they could to defend their communities.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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The Armenian revolutionary parties all have a history, and that history is called the radical Russian underground. Out of People's Will came the Armenian Dashnaks. Out the Marxist Emancipation of Labor Group came the Armenian Hunchaks.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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The Kurds launch a revolt, the Armenians form their first political party in history, and Sultan Abdulhamid overreacts (as usual) and forms his very own Cossack-style cavalry.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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The history of the Armenians, the Kurds, and the Turks in Eastern Anatolia... it's complicated.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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In 1885, the Bulgarians went ahead and annexed Eastern Rumelia... without asking anyone. Prince Milan of Serbia would have nothing of it, declaring war shortly thereafter. The ensuing conflict would begin a dangerous cycle in the Balkans.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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The Bulgarians are back, and they're gunning for Macedonia.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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Taking advantage of Ottoman weakness, the British and the French would snatch away North Africa following the Congress of Berlin. But in Egypt, Ahmad Urabi will have something to say about all of this as he ignites the first sparks of Egyptian nationalism.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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"The Red Sultan," "the Bloody Sultan," "the Monster of Yildiz," "Abdul the Damned," "Scourge of God," "Degenerate Tyrant," "Wolf Guarding the Sheepfold"... the guy clearly had a lot of enemies.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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As we begin our season on the Young Turks, we look at Season 1 and ask: were the Ottomans really that sick?
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
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With the help of Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians, Montenegrins, and Greeks, the Russian imperial army would sweep through Ottoman Bulgaria, liberating town after town. But once the Russians reached the gates of Constantinople, the Great Powers (predictably) began to get a wee bit nervous.
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Things weren't so looking great for the Ottomans in the summer of 1876. We've got widespread revolts, bankruptcy, public outrage across Europe, diplomatic isolation, two coups within a month, and Russia & Serbia both preparing for war. But you know, at least they got a new constitution out of it!
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In the aftermath of the April Uprising, the bashi bazouks committed terrible crimes against humanity. As news of the Batak Massacre filtered back into the western presses, public outcry would spread all throughout Europe. Prominent figures such as Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Giuseppe Garibaldi will publicly support Bulgarian Liberation and call on their governments to intervene.
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In April of 1876, the Bulgarians rose up, and the Ottomans clamped down.
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Vasil Levski, the "apostle" of Bulgarian Liberation, spread his revolutionary gospel throughout Ottoman Bulgaria as he brought the movement out of the emigre circles of Romania. Levski would then join forces with Hristo Botev and Lyeben Karavelov to found the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, laying the ground work for the April Uprising of 1876.
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Who's got the better mustache: Georgi Rakovski or Panyot Hitov?
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"Oh Ottomans, what are we going to do with you?" - The Great Powers
"Just give us a chance, we promise we can change!" - The Ottomans
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...and the Great Powers. Throughout the Egyptian-Ottoman Wars, the great Pasha, Muhammed Ali, would score one victory after another against the now truly floundering Sultan Mahmud II. But, as usual, the Great Powers are gonna have something to say about all of this.
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