Abstract :
During the Young Turk Revolution was done in 1908, Syria including today s Palestine and Lebanon was one of the regions represented the most important strategic, geographic, ethnic, religious and cultural position of the Empire in the Ottoman Empire. This position and property of Syria attracted the special interest of the Great Powers of that time.While the management approach, called as a Hamidian Regime in Western literature, was tried to be eliminated together with the Young Turk Revolution; liberty, equality and fraternity principles inspired of the French Revolution of the new regime as well as justice and solidarity principles neither restrained the declaration of the Bulgaria’s independence nor prevented the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Austria. While the Arab Nationalism showed the re-development trend in the Arabian Province forming the another important part of the Empire, Rashid Mutran, a Syrian Catholic, came up with a movement reminiscent the same ideological direction. In 25 December 1908, an autonomy demand aiming the separation from the Empire was made in a manifesto signed by Rashid Mutran on behalf of a committee identifying itself as the Central Committee of Syria.
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II. Constitution , Rashid Mutran , Autonomy , Young Turks , Syria
