after the 1908 turkish revolution, the tension between the ottomans and the arabs became politicised during the first election under the new constitution. . the constituencies had been established to favour the turks over the other nationalities in the empire, noting that the actual population ratio of turks to arabs in the empire was 2:3. . once the committee of union and progress had been elected, with a turkish majority, it became clear that they were not interested in dismissing the previous centralisation policies of which the arabs suffered from. .