Frontiers of Revolution and Empire in the Middle East

Yenen, Alp

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-04465-6_4

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“…The article concludes by considering the implications of these episodes of failed radicalism, arguing that revolutionary cooperation was not a given, but rather a contingent process shaped as much by state crackdown as intra-group or cross-organizational rivalries. Even though the Danubian cities indeed became yet another axis of a growingly transnational fin-de-siècle radicalism (Khuri-Makdisi 2010; Carminati 2017; Alloul et al 2018; Berberian 2019; Hill 2021; Yenen 2023), it remains important to consider the very real limitations to any revolutionary pursuit, even in the late nineteenth-century context of increasingly global and transregional connections that had made it much easier than ever before.…”

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The Bulgarian connection: the Young Turks in exile and the making of radicalism in Ottoman Europe, 1895–1897

Öztan

2024

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Focusing on the years between 1895 and 1897, this article reconstructs what happened after the arrival of Young Turk revolutionaries into the cities of the Danubian hinterland, particularly centering on Rusçuk (Ruse in today’s Bulgaria). In tracing the footsteps of İbrahim Temo and Mustafa Ragıp, two self-exiled figures from İstanbul, this study captures a particular moment when the Danubian cities became the hotbed of transnational radicalism, as a number of assassination plots began to be hatched by Muslim revolutionaries. A well-connected port city serviced by regular steamship links, Rusçuk was where professional revolutionaries met with the local Muslims, much to the ire of Ottoman diplomats in the region. In capturing their encounters, the goal is to point to the significance of Young Turk activities in the Balkans before the turn of the century, a phase which remains understudied in the existing literature. By focusing on a secondary port city that became home to failed assassination plots, this article also seeks to contribute to ongoing discussion in global history that warns against narratives of unhindered globalization. In studying fin-de-siecle radicalization, I hope to contribute to these debates by reflecting upon the limits of globalization as a productive field of historical inquiry.

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The Bulgarian connection: the Young Turks in exile and the making of radicalism in Ottoman Europe, 1895–1897

Öztan

2024

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“…The twentieth century would introduce new "national" realities worldwide, as well as novel strands of imperialism, tensions and ruptures between capitalism and collectivism, war and demographic engineering, and further mass migration. These in turn unleashed different culturally and ethnically homogenizing forces within the post-Ottoman lands (Gingeras 2009;Üngör 2011;Yenen 2023). Exile and displacement were, yet again, central to these histories of dissolution and reinvention.…”

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