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General Amnesty Accorded: Release of Political Prisoners in Turkey
The State Department has received a telegram from Ambassador Leishmann at Constantinople reporting that a general amnesty for political prisoners has been proclaimed and that those imprisoned are being released. The change has been brought about with comparatively little bloodshed, although it is too early to determine whether the new machinery of government will run without conflict or disturbance. The constitution is limited and is the same as that granted at the beginning of the present reign. Changes in the ministry are taking place and efforts are being made to have some of the palace officials displaced. The populace openly charge the palace camarilla with unscrupulousness and appear to regard it as responsible for past ills.
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31 March incident
The 31 March incident (Turkish: 31 Mart Vakası) was an uprising in the Ottoman Empire in April 1909, during the Second Constitutional Era. Occurring soon after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, in which the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) had successfully restored the Constitution and ended the absolute rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (r. 1876–1909), it is sometimes referred to as an attempted countercoup or counterrevolution.
Wikipedia →Committee of Union and Progress
The foremost faction of the Young Turks movement, the CUP instigated the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, which ended absolute monarchy and began the Second Constitutional Era. After an ideological transformation, from 1913 to 1918, the CUP ruled the Ottoman Empire as a one-party state.
Wikipedia →1913 Ottoman coup d'état
The 1913 Ottoman coup d'état (23 January 1913), also known as the Raid on the Sublime Porte (Turkish: Bâb-ı Âlî Baskını), was a coup d'état carried out in the Ottoman Empire by a number of Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) members led by Ismail Enver Bey and Mehmed Talât Bey, in which the group made a surprise raid on the central Ottoman government buildings, the Sublime Porte.
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