Turkish Revolution

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Under the rules of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the Ottoman Empire was going into a trouble at the years after mid-1870s. The majority of citizens were supporting Sultan Hamid II because he was also a religious leader for Muslims. Because of Hamid's Arab devotion, he had an enmity to west. Although there were good economic conditions with west in these years, Hamid had never changed his mind about hostility to west. Because of Hamid's hostility, the Ottoman Empire could not kept in step with technological developments in West. In developing world, regressions of the Ottoman Empire yielded the end of approximately one-thousand years old Ottoman Empire who had territories in 3 continents and lost most of them in a short time except Anatolia. Because of the occupations Anatolian people wanted to fight with enemies but the Ottoman Empire did not have power to fight. For that reason the citizens gathered together and fought against to enemies. After their success they realized the Turkish Revolution and changed the regime. So the most important cause of the Turkish Revolution was the weakness of the Ottoman Empire.
Refusing the idea of modernizing started the regression of the Ottoman Empire. Sultan Hamid II
was nursing a grudge to west from past. Although he rarely interested in western technology or some
western products, he had never given up his hostility manners to west. While countries was developing in
science and military, the Ottoman Empire started to perceive advanced western countries threat over
them. The Turkish intellectuals who are inspired from west and some other developed countries like China, were accusing Sultan Abdul Hamid II because of the Ottoman Empire's backwardness in contrast
to the developed countries. Meanwhile Sultan Abdul Hamid II annulled the constitution since
1876 and he started to manage the country with his own rules and the intellectuals did not like this
situation. Sultan Abdul Hamid II had n...