Earthquake in Kurdistan: How it eventually changed Ottoman regime.
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Medyanews (27.02.2023).
A strong earthquake in 1907 that shook the Kurdish city of Bitlis (Bidlîs), fuelled local unrest which soon turned into an all-out rebellion against the Ottoman governor of the city. The Bitlis uprising, with the full participation of the local population regardless of ethnicity or religion, initiated the chain of events that eventually forced Sultan Abdulhamit to reenact the constitutional monarchy a year later, ending his authoritarian and arbitrary rule for 32 years. [1]
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