6 dic 1876 anni - Radical Dissidents (1876)
In 1876 a group of radical dissidents from
the Ottoman bureaucracy seized power
in a coup, formed a cabinet that included
partisans of reform, traditions. Many of
them fell out of favor with Abdul Hamid
and spent years in exile, where they
experienced European society firsthand.
Educated subjects came to believe that
the biggest problem of the Ottoman
empire was the political structure that
vested unchecked power in the sultan.
For these dissidents, Ottoman society
was