CUP

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The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) was a dominant early 20th-century Ottoman political organization and ruling party associated with the Young Turk movement and the empire’s final years.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Young Turk organization
political organization
political party
alliance Central Powers
associatedWith Armenian genocide
mass deportations of Armenians
banned 1918
cameToPower 1908
collectiveLeadership Three Pashas
country Ottoman Empire
deFactoRulingPartyOf Ottoman Empire
dissolved 1918
duringPeriod late Ottoman Empire
founded 1889
foundedAt Istanbul
foundedBy Abdullah Cevdet
Ibrahim Temo
linked to: İbrahim Temo

Mehmet Reşit
İshak Sükuti
governingPeriod 1908–1918
headquarters Istanbul
ideology Ottomanism
Turkish nationalism
centralization
modernization
influenced early Turkish nationalist movement
involvedIn Balkan Wars
World War I
keyEvent 1908 Young Turk Revolution
1913 Ottoman coup d’état
Young Turk Revolution
laterType mass political party
movement Young Turk movement
nativeName İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti
nativeNameLanguage Ottoman Turkish
opposedBy Sultan Abdul Hamid II
originalBase Military Medical School in Istanbul
policy Turkification
centralization of imperial administration
secular reforms in administration
politicalPosition authoritarian
nationalist
prominentLeader Ahmed Cemal Pasha
Mehmed Talat Pasha
İsmail Enver Pasha
reorganizedAs Teceddüt Fırkası
restored Ottoman constitution of 1876
roleInEvent led the Young Turk Revolution of 1908
seizedFullPower 1913 Ottoman coup d’état
shortName CUP
successor Republican People’s Party
type secret society (early phase)

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Committee of Union and Progress shortName CUP
subject linked to: CUP