Young Turk Revolution
The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization part of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdulhamid II to restore the Ottoman Constitution and recall the parliament, which ushered in multi-party politics within the Empire. From the Young Turk Revolution to the Empire's end marks the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire's history. More than three decades earlier, in 1876, Constitutional monarchy had been established under Abdulhamid during a period of time known as the First Constitutional Era, which lasted for only two years before Abdulhamid suspended it and restored autocratic powers to himself.