Turkey's parliament passes limited amnesty law for Kurdish PKK militants
France 24 →Turkey's parliament approved limited amnesty for Kurdish PKK militants on Monday, a key step in a peace process aimed at ending decades of conflict. However, the legislation excludes jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan, whose release the group has made a central demand.
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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1908 Ottoman general election
The Committee of Union and Progress, the main driving force behind the revolution, won every seat in parliament except for one. They were the first elections contested by organised political parties in the Ottoman Empire.
Wikipedia →31 March incident
Early on the morning of 13 April, troops of the fourth Avcı regiment mutinied, locking up their officers and marching onto the streets to call for the reinstatement of Sharia and for the CUP to be disbanded. Religious students joined the mutinying soldiers outside the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, before marching to the parliamentary building.
Wikipedia →Adana massacre
The tension erupted into riots on April 1, 1909, which soon escalated into organized violence against the Armenian population of Adana and in several surrounding cities. Nearly 4,437 Armenian dwellings were torched which meant nearly half the town was razed, leading to descriptions of the incidents as a 'holocaust'. Between 20,000 and 30,000 ethnic Armenians were killed in total.
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