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Events on Tuesday 13 April 1909 1
1909Ottoman countercoup and deposition of Abdulhamid IIConservative uprising crushed, sultan removed from powerOn 13 April 1909 conservative soldiers and religious students revolted in Istanbul against the Young Turk government, an episode known as the 31 March Incident. Loyalist troops from Salonica suppressed the rising, and on 27 April 1909 the parliament deposed Sultan Abdulhamid II, replacing him with his brother Mehmed V. The event cemented the Committee of Union and Progress's control over the Ottoman Empire.