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Prominent Young Turks

The prominent leaders and ideologists included:

  • Pamphleteers and activists
    • Yusuf Akçura (1876–1935) a Tatar, journalist with a secular national ideology, who was against Ottomanism and supported separation in religion and social life.
    • Ayetullah Bey
    • Nuri Bey
    • Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1910), painter and owner of the first specialized art school in Istanbul (1883).
    • Refik Bey
    • Emmanuel Carasso Efendi, a lawyer and a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family.
    • Mehmet Cavit Bey (1875–1926) a Dönmeh from Thessalonica, Jewish by ancestry but Muslim by religion since the 17th century, who was Minister of Finance. He was hanged for treason in 1926.
    • Abdullah Cevdet, a supporter of biological materialism, who later in his life promoted the Bahá'í Faith.
    • Marcel Samuel Raphael Cohen (aka Tekin Alp) (1883–1961), born to a Jewish family in Salonica under Ottoman control (now Thessaloniki, Greece), became one of the founding fathers of Turkish nationalism and an ideologue of Pan-Turkism.
    • Agah Efendi (1832–1885) founded the first Turkish newspaper and, as postmaster, brought the postage stamp to the Ottoman Empire.
    • Ziya Gökalp (1875–1924), a Turkish nationalist from Diyarbakir, publicist and pioneer sociologist, influenced by modern Western European culture.
    • Talaat Pasha, whose role before the revolution is not clear.
    • Ahmed Riza (1859–1930), worked to improve the condition of the Ottoman peasantry. He served as minister of agriculture, and later ministry of education.
  • Military officers
    • Ahmed Niyazi Bey
    • Enver Pasha
    • Resat Bey

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