Full name: Turkey: a Past and a Future

Author: Arnold J. Toynbee Year: 1927 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780941567251 0941567257

The Young Turks were not Nationalists from the beginning; the "Committee of Union and Progress" was founded in good faith to liberate and reconcile all the inhabitants of the Empire on the principles of the French Revolution. At the Committee's congress in 1909 the Nationalists were shouted down with the cry: "Our goal is organisation and nothing else 3]." But Young Turkish ideals rapidly narrowed.