Abstract:

Relations between the USA and the Ottoman Empire have not received much attention from scholars as most studies have focused on Ottoman relations with European powers instead. This paper discusses an important stage in the history of Ottoman relations with the USA by relying mainly on American and British documents. This research deals with an introduction to the 1908 revolution carried out by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and their control over the Ottoman Empire, the diplomacy of the USA towards what the CUP did to enforce the law, the formation of the new Ottoman government and the optimism of the USA ambassador, John Leishman, about the future of the Ottoman Empire after the revolution. The discussion also deals with USA diplomacy ranging from holding parliamentary elections and convening until the harbingers of the counter-revolution began, what happened to the sending of the American ship Scorpion due to the counter-revolution and the Adana massacre, and the controversy surrounding the sending of American ships. The issue of the advance of Mahmud Shevket Pasha's army towards Istanbul, which was able to eliminate the counter-revolution and restore the control of the CUP again, has also been touched upon in addition to the position on the ouster of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in April 1909 and the bilateral relations between the two countries, including the problem of disarmament. The study also contains a conclusion dealt with important results.

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