31 March Incident
1909 REBELLION OF CONSERVATIVE REACTIONARIES IN CONSTANTINOPLE
31 Mart Vakası; 31 March Event; 1909 Ottoman countercoup; Countercoup of 1909; 31 Mart Vakasi; Countercoup (1909); 31 Mart Olayı; Ottoman countercoup of 1909
The 31 March Incident (, , , or ) was a political crisis within the Ottoman Empire in April 1909, during the Second Constitutional Era. Occurring soon after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, in which the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) had successfully restored the Constitution and ended the absolute rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, it is sometimes referred to as an attempted countercoup or counterrevolution.