What is Young Turks?
[[File:Flag of the Young Turk Revolution.svg|250px|thumb|Flag of the [[Young Turk Revolution]]]] The '''Young Turks''' was a [[Politics|political]] reform movement in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries to replace the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s [[absolute monarchy]] with a [[Constitutionalism|constitutional]] government. They led a rebellion against the absolute rule of [[Sultan]] [[Abdul Hamid II]], to restore the 1876 constitution, in the 1908 [[Young Turk Revolution]]. They also committed the [[Armenian Genocide|Armenian genocide]]. {{history-stub}} == History == The Young Turks was an opposition movement at the end of the [[Ottoman Empire]] that existed in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. Its members aimed to make reforms in politics and culture and wanted to create a new identity that was against the dominant [[ideology]] of Ottoman rule.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A History of the Modern Middle East|last=Cleveland|first=William, L.|last2=Bunton|first2=Martin|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=9780429495502|publication-place=New York|page=124}}</ref> That made them disconnected from the Ottoman regime, and [[Sultan]] [[Abdul Hamid II]] (r. 1876-1909) repressed the group. Throughout the years, its members built up a resistance inside and outside the empire.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to Atatürk's Turkey|last=Zürcher|first=Erik, J.|publisher=I.B.Tauris|year=2010|isbn=978-0-85771-807-5|publication-place=London|page=97}}</ref> The movement was a combination of three groups. Each group had its own critic against the Ottoman regime, which eventually made the groups come together. The first group was a community in exile and traced its origins further back since its members were abroad since the time of the [[:en:Young_Ottomans|Young Ottomans]] (1860s and 1870s). The second group was a squad of Ottoman students. The last group was a collaboration of dissatisfied army officers.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A History of the Modern Middle East|last=Clev