abdulhamid ii

  1. The Red Sultan and the Parliment: A Timeline of Ottoman Democracy
    Threadmarks: Chapter 0

    Chapter 0: The Prologue Miralay Seyfeddin Efendinin Hatıraları (1934) [1] "...... I can never forget that hot Tuesday afternoon in 1877. Back then i was a Yüzbaşı [2], in the trenches of Nigbolu. I was under a man called Mehmed Bey, in the North-Eastern trenches opposing the Russians. I was...

  2. No Ottoman countercoup of 1909?

    Although he was stripped of most of his powers in the wake of the Young Turk Revolution, sultan Abdul Hamid II was allowed to stay on the throne as long as he accepted the return of constitutional order (which he shut down in 1878), which he did - in public. Behind the scenes, he plotted to...
  3. Historyman 14

    Successful Yıldız: Abdul Hamid killed in 1905

    In 1905, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation tired to assassinated Sultan Abdul Hamid II over his anti-Armenian policies and massacres of Armenians. The ARF planeted explosives in a carriage parked outside the Yıldız mosque where Abdul Hamid pray every Friday. The Sultan would survive...
  4. Incanian

    Overall how good of a Sultan was Abdulhamid II

    Overall, was Abdul Hamid II a good sultan?

  5. PC/WI: UK intervenes in the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish war

    Is this plausible? Can the UK pull off something similar like they did in the Crimean War? And could the British-Ottoman alliance win?
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