The Young Turks and the Boycott Movement

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire''s ''imperial twilight''. As the Empire fell away however, the beginnings of a young, vibrant and radical Turkish nationalism took root in Anatolia. The summer of 1908 saw a group known as the Young Turks attempt to revitalise Turkey with a constitutional revolution aimed at reducing the power of the Ottoman Sultan, Abdulhammid II- ...