THE ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL ISMAIL MAHIR PASHA IN ISTANBUL (1908)

ERKEK M. S.

Acta Histriae, vol.31, no.1, pp.83-112, 2023 (AHCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 31 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2023
  • Doi Number: 10.19233/ah.2023.5
  • Journal Name: Acta Histriae
  • Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Index Islamicus, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Page Numbers: pp.83-112
  • Keywords: Abdulhamid II, assassination, Committee of Union and Progress, Ismail Mahir Pasha, Istanbul, Ottoman
  • Uşak University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Ismail Mahir Pasha was sent to Thessaloniki by Abdulhamid II as an inspector to investigate the Committee of Union and Progress which caused him to get caught by the radar of the Committee Union and Progress members when he returned to Istanbul. The Committee Union and Progress members sent him a fake letter to get him out of his household and consequently assassinated him on a street on December 2nd, 1908, by a man dressed as an officer who couldn't get caught. The aim of this article is to evaluate the reasons of the assassination process and who he was assassinated by and to examine the political results of this assassination.