Sultan Abdul Hamid II was the leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1909. He was a brutal man who responded to Armenian calls for more democracy with violence. Between 1894 and 1896, he ordered the killing of more than 100,000 Armenian villagers. In 1909, Abdul Hamid was overthrown ...
Only the Armenians and the Arabs of the Middle East remained stuck in the backward and nearly bankrupt empire, now under the autocratic rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Ottoman misrule had made the Armenians, a prosperous minority despite its political disadvantages, sympathetic to Russia. Between...
(English):The period of Abdulhamit II is the period of survival of the Ottomans. In this period, especially the Sultan and the governers and other intellectuals had tried to find different solution for preventing the Empire from the fall. Abdulhamid II had asked them to form the solutions ...
which by their pompous form and large size are entirely different from all such letters known on other carpets.” After Ferid Pasha ceased to be the governor of Konya, and became the Grand Vizier of Abdulhamid II who had assumed the Ottoman throne, he ordered that photographs and watereolors...
The exhibition items, which weighed a total of 8 tonnes, were placed into 56 high-security wooden cases for the dedicated flight, whose consignments also included the Yusen Shippo Vase, Wooden Writing Table and Bamboo Mirror which were gifted to Sultan Abdulhamid II, by Emperor Meiji of Japan...
Abdulhamid II gifted the mansion to his sister, Mediha Sultan, in 1887; it subsequently became known as the Damat Ferit Paşa Mansion, after Mediha Sultan’s second husband. Also known as the Damatkıran Palace, the mansion witnessed tragic events in the last period of the Ottoman Empire...
Gezmişarguesthat the student movement began not in 1968 but before the 1908 Young TurkRevolution, with medical students protesting Sultan Abdul Hamid II (321). Byembedding the THKO in a student movement that started in the Ottoman era, hecreates a memory of activism that both fits into ...
Living in 1847-1919, Ismail Kemal is one of the famous statesman of Sultan Abdulhamid II and Costitution Periods. Ismail Kemal who first met with Europe in 1865, because of his job at Office of Paris, later was (Mutasarrif) vice-governor of Ruscuk. He is well known as pro-British ...