The History of the Middle East II
Modern Middle East
Topic Six:  The Yong Turks and Nationalism

 

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Identifications:  Identify and discuss the importance of the following items.
Istanbul Imperial  Military-Medical College, Ibrahim Temo, Ahmed Riza, Ottoman Society of Liberty, Mehmed V,  Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, General Liman von Sanders, Enver Pasha, Halide Ebid Adivar, Ziya Gokalp, Tevfik Fikret, Fuad Korprulu, Ottomanism, Jamal al-din Afghani, Pan-Islamism, Pan Turkism, The Balkan Wars, Talat Bey, Jemal Pasha, Committee of Union and Progress, Murad Bey, Syrian Protestant College, American University of Beirut, Butrus aal-Bustani, Ottoman Decentralization Party,
 
Essay
1.  Discuss the social, political, and economic conditions that made it possible for the Young Turks to take over the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
2.  Discuss the social, political, and economic problems that confronted the Young Turks prior to the outbreak of World War I.
Reading Assignment
Ochsenwald and Fisher, Chapters 27
 

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