O tipăritură a Junilor Turci apărută la Geneva în 1895
A Printed Work of the Young Turks Published in Geneva in 1895

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of this study was an unidentified leaflet written in Ottoman Turkish, located in the fund of the Orientalist Kuun Géza in the Cluj National Archives. The study is structured around the history of the work and its author. It was proven to be a very rare copy of the first issue of the Khutbahs printed by Hilmi Tunalı an important leader of the opposition movement of Young Turks, published in Geneva immediately after the author was forced to leave Ottoman Empire because of the Sultan’s repressions against oppositionists. The rareness of the issue is due to the fact that the first issues were purchased for 4,000 francs by the Sultan’s envoy, who was sent to Europe to negotiate with the elites the ceasing of the oppositionist movement and to gather the printed issues and their matrices. With the proceeds from sale of the Khutbahs their author managed to organize new associations and new specialized press organs. The Khutbahs were an important mobilizing factor in the actions of Young Turks for “saving the state” through Tunali’s perceptions promoting the idea of ​​ creation of a modern Ottoman society model and they were addressed to all Ottomans regardless of ethnicity, as “citizens” of the Ottoman Empire.

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