Между радикализма и реформизма: идейните течения във ВМОРО и Младотурският преврат
Between Radicalism and Reformism: The Ideological Trends in IMARO and the Young Turk Revolution

Summary/Abstract: The events of the summer of 1908 caused by the Young Turk movement in European Turkey set the beginning of the so-called Second Constitutional period in the Ottoman Empire. The coup of 24 July came as a surprise to everyone – the Great Powers, the Balkan states, and the Sultan, whose prompt capitulation in turn surprised the Young Turk leaders1. The initial reactions varied from excited cheer in European capitals, through the contained and cautious wait of the Balkan governments, to Abdul Hamid II’s badly concealed shock.

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