Revolt in the Ottoman Empire
Ahmed
Mouhtar bey, Turkey
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joined state service as a member of the bureau of "Imperial
Chancellery"; where he stayed for six years. He resigned one year
after the revolution 1908 to fight against the politic of the
committee "Union et Progrès" which he considered a misfortune
for his country. 
Especially persecuted were the non-Turkish
inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire such as Albanians, Arabs, Kurds,
Greeks and Armenians and others. The Committee Union tried to kill
him, so he left Constantinople in 1910. One year later this Committee
condemned him to death while he was in France. He struggled against
the unionist party in France, England and Switzerland by publishing
articles in the European Newspapers and in publishing such booklets
in French and Turkish. In 1912 the Government Unionist was overthrown
and his party returned and took over authority with Kamil Pacha and
his father was nominated for the second time Sheil-ul-Islam. He
returned to Constantinople and Kamil Pasha in forming his Cabinet,
offered him the Ministry of Public
Works, but as his occidental propositions have been not accepted as
being too audacious, he did not accept this offer. Three months later
he had to leave Constantinople on a foreign boat on account of the
coup d'état which had overthrown the liberal Cabinet and the
assassination of the Nazim Pacha. The committee Union came to the
Power again, has again condemned him to death. He had to stay in
Europe for 7 years; he continually fought against the narrow minded
politicians of this committee. He made energetic efforts with the
Sultan Mehmed I. to prevent that this committee forces his country
into the World War with Germany and against the Allies.
Memhmet
Ali Tefvik, Turkey
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joined in 1911 the small group of men who tried and succeeded to give
the Turkish nation a new ideal. His writings during and after the
Balkan War aroused wide-spread interest and he was able to strengthen
the Turkish nation´s faith in her own destiny.
