The Countercoup (March 1909) is the famous coup against the "Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire", which was established by Young Turk Revolution of 1908, aimed to dismantle the Second Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire) and brining the monarchy of Abdul Hamid II with a dethroned Sultan's bid for a return to the Caliphate by replacing the secular policies. This failure brought the Committee of Union and Progress back from disarray, from its inability to generate a government. The countercoup ended the Arab-Turkish honeymoon because of the caliphate issues. The Committee of Union and Progress outlawed Arab societies who gave support, including the Society of Arab Ottoman Brotherhood, and prohibited the issuing of several Arab journals and newspapers with radical Islamic rethoric. March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire is the goverment structure added to the Ottoman governing structure during Second Constitutional Era. ... The 1908 Young Turk Revolution even though a popular constitutional movement, was a watershed in the history of the late Ottoman Empire. ... Public Demonstration The Second Constitutional Era in the Ottoman Empire began with the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, shortly after which Sultan Abdul Hamid II restored the 1876 Constitution suspended since 1878. ... Places where monarchies maintain rule appear in blue. ... Abdülhamid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد ثانی , Turkish: Ä°kinci Abdülhamid) (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire. ... An Anglicized/Latinized version of the Arabic word خليفة or Khalīfah, Caliph (  listen?) is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ... This article concerns secularity, that is, being secular, in various senses. ... Foundation: 1890 Dissolved: 1918, Court Martialed Head: Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (Turkish: Ä°ttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) was a political organization during the dissolution period of the Ottoman Empire which came to power between 1908 and 1918. ... Foundation: 1890 Dissolved: 1918, Court Martialed Head: Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (Turkish: Ä°ttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) was a political organization during the dissolution period of the Ottoman Empire which came to power between 1908 and 1918. ...

Resolution

Main article: 31 March Incident

31 March Incident (31 Mart Vakası) was a rebellion of the reactionaries in 1909 in İstanbul toward the Countercoup (1909), who attempted to put an end to the nascent Second Constitutional Era in the Ottoman Empire and to the newly-established influence of the Committee of Union and Progress, in...

Effects

The policies of Committee of Union and Progress toward controlling the fundamentalists which were calling Caliphate system to be imposed was perceived as silencing of all voices calling for independence and liberty. Under the multi-religious (balancing policies) or secular policy issues, Committee of Union and Progress percieved as the source of 'Turkification' all the Arab subjects of the Empire. These measures stirred elevated the nationalist and independence and freedom among Arab population. Foundation: 1890 Dissolved: 1918, Court Martialed Head: Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (Turkish: Ä°ttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) was a political organization during the dissolution period of the Ottoman Empire which came to power between 1908 and 1918. ... An Anglicized/Latinized version of the Arabic word خليفة or Khalīfah, Caliph (  listen?) is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ... Foundation: 1890 Dissolved: 1918, Court Martialed Head: Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (Turkish: Ä°ttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) was a political organization during the dissolution period of the Ottoman Empire which came to power between 1908 and 1918. ... Turkification is a term used to describe a cultural change in which something or someone non-Turkish is made to become Turkish. ...