1912 Ottoman coup d'état
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The 1912 Ottoman coup d'état (17 July 1912) was a coup by military memorandum in the Ottoman Empire against the Committee of Union and Progress by a group of military officers calling themselves the Saviour Officers (Ottoman Turkish: Halâskâr Zâbitân) during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.[1]
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Saviour Officers |
Ottoman Government Committee of Union and Progress | ||||||
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Mehmed Sadık |
Mehmed Said Pasha Mehmed Talaat |
In late 1911 anti-CUP opposition consolidated into the Freedom and Accord Party. Following the CUP's election victory in the 1912 election, widely deemed fraudulent, Freedom and Accord members recruited army officers serving in Albania to their cause in protest. They organized themselves into the Saviour Officers which are often referred to as the military wing of the Freedom and Accord Party.
The coup was one of the central events of the politically volatile 1912–13 years, which saw political instability due to the power struggle between the CUP and Freedom and Accord, as well as the newly sparked Balkan Wars.