During the Ottoman Empire's last years, between the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the dissolution of the General Assembly in 1920, the Second Constitutional Era was a time of restored parliame ...

The Ottoman Empire's First Constitutional Era was the constitutional monarchy that started on 23 December 1876. It ended on 14 February 1878, with the adoption of the Ottoman constitution of 18 ...

The Sultanate of Women (Turkish: Kadnlar sultanate) was a time in the Ottoman Empire when the wives and mothers of the Sultans wielded exceptional political power. With Suleiman the Magnificent' ...

From July 20, 1402, until July 5, 1413, the Ottoman Interregnum, often known as the Ottoman Civil War, lasted. It was fought between Sultan Bayezid I's sons following their father's defeat ...

The Ottoman Empire's Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the Ottoman Parliament's General Assembly. Unlike the upper chamber, the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies was chosen by the Ot ...

The Ottoman Empire's Senate was the upper house of the General Assembly, the Ottoman Empire's parliament. The General Assembly was made up of notables in the Ottoman administration which fo ...

The Ottoman Empire's imperial government attempted representative democracy for the first time with the General Assembly. It was also known as the Ottoman Parliament. It was made up of two hous ...

Following the Turkish Surname Law of 1934, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha became Ahmet Tevfik Okday. He was a Crimean Tatar who was an Ottoman statesman. He was the Ottoman Empire's last Grand Vizier. He w ...

The first Ottoman grand vizier was Alaeddin Pasha. Kemaleddin was his father's name. Hac Kemaleddin Olu Alaeddin Pasha or Alaeddin bin Hac Kemaleddin were his common names. He was most likely f ...

Mehmed VI was born Mehmed Vahideddin, and his original name was Mehmed VI. He was the Ottoman Empire's last Sultan. His forceful retirement and deportation in 1922 paved the ground for the Turk ...