# Canonical recap data for Turkish Revolution & Young Turk Movement (1908)
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slug: young-turk-revolution
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1908/young-turk-revolution"
title: Turkish Revolution & Young Turk Movement
subtitle: The Young Turk Revolution restored constitutional rule and challenged Ottoman autocracy, reshaping the empire's final decades and modernization trajectory.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1908-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1908
decade: 1900
country:
name: Ottoman Empire
slug: ottoman-empire
summaryShort: |-

  The Turkish War of Independence was a series of military campaigns and a revolution waged by the Turkish National Movement, after the Ottoman Empire was occupied and partitioned following its defeat in World War I. The conflict was between the Turkish Nationalists against Allied and separatist forces over the applicat
summaryLong: |-

  The Turkish War of Independence was a series of military campaigns and a revolution waged by the Turkish National Movement, after the Ottoman Empire was occupied and partitioned following its defeat in World War I. The conflict was between the Turkish Nationalists against Allied and separatist forces over the application of Wilsonian principles, especially self-determination, in post-World War I Anatolia and eastern Thrace. The revolution concluded the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern question, ending the Ottoman sultanate and the Ottoman caliphate, and establishing the Republic of Turkey. This resulted in the transfer of sovereignty from the sultan-caliph to the nation, setting the stage for nationalist revolutionary reform in Republican Turkey.
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importance: 81
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence"
  title: Turkish Revolution
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- revolution
metaDescription: |-

  The Turkish War of Independence was a series of military campaigns and a revolution waged by the Turkish National Movement, after the Ottoman Empire was occupi
wikidataQid: Q234738
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260606211333/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_war_of_independence"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-06
  label: Turkish Revolution
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence"
