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31 March rebellion from start the supperession

2006
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Advisor: Prof.dr. Hale Şıvgın

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`The March 31 Rebellion? has an important impression in OttomanHistory. This rebellion, which appeared after the declaration of the `SecondConstitution?, kept the Ottoman Empire busy for about thirteen days. Thereasons of this rebellion haven?t still been revealed. However it had a featureof a `military rebellion? as a matter fact that it had been a rebellion, then itstarted to get a religious state with the propaganda of the Moslem theologicalstudents involved in the rebellion.This rebellion , which appeared on the first March according to theGregorian Calendar, was administered by the sergeants of the second andthird `Hunter Battalions? who had been brought to Salonica by the `Party ofUnion and Progress? to protect the `Constitution?, but the fourth HunterBattalion,who was also in stanbul,wasn?t involved in this rebellion. In thisrebellion; a deputy, a minister and soldiers and civilians whose numbers willnot be able to be determined, died. On the first day of the event, the existinggovernment couldn?t stop the events and resigned. The rebellious soldiersdominated stanbul completely for seven days.This rebellion was suppressed after bloody fights which continuedabout three days by means of the `Movement Army? which was constitued bythe soldiers who were belonged to the Third Armies located in Salonica andthe Second Armies located in Edirne. Volunteers from Bulgarians andAlbanians who were in Rumeli and from so forth minorities participated to thisMovement Army, too.After the suppression of the rebellion, `Martial Law? was declared, thethirty-fourth Ottoman Sultan, Abdulhamid II was dethroned and instead ofhim, Mehmet Reşat V became the Ottoman Sultan. The people who involvedin the rebellion and supported it and seventy people were executed afterbeing judged in the `Counsil of the State? which had been set in the structureof `Movement Army?, four hundred and twenty people were inflicted withvarious imprisonment punishments.

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Sıddık Yıldız

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Sıddık Yıldız (Master Thesis). 31 March rebellion from start the supperession, 2006, Gazi University.

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