Committee of Union and Progress

• abstract: The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (}}) began as a secret society established as the "Committee of Ottoman Union" () in Istanbul in 1889 by the medical students Ibrahim Temo, Abdullah Cevdet, İshak Sükuti and Ali Hüseyinzade. It was transformed into a political organization by Bahaeddin Sakir aligning itself with the Young Turks in 1906, during the period of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

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