Özet:

After the closure of the Parliament in 1878, the Young Turks, who were in opposition to the government, started on a relentless struggle to ensure the re-declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy. During this period, the Young Turks, who were concerned that the country would disintegrate and thought that the management approach of Abdulhamid II caused it, were organized under the umbrella of the Committee of Union and Progress. The struggle of the Committee of Union and Progress, which had an important place in the history of the Ottoman State, against Abdulhamid II, ended successfully with the declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy for the second time in 1908. However, the Ottoman Freedom Society, whose establishment was influenced by the “Macedonian Question”, had a great contribution to this success. This society, which did not have the power to ensure the declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy for years, gained this power with the spread of the Ottoman Freedom Society among the Third Army officers. Having spread among the Third Army officers who were fighting against ethnic committees and gangs in Macedonia, the Ottoman Freedom Society remained on the stage of history for a very short time. However, the founders of the Ottoman Freedom Society, such as Talat Bey, became notable administrators of the Committee of Union and Progress and Ottoman politics. Besides, by transferring the revolutionary character it had gained in Macedonia to the Committee of Union and Progress, it partially changed the structure of Union and Progress. The conditions under which the Ottoman Freedom Society was established, its establishment and its disappearance will be dealt with in this study.

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