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REVOLUTION IN TURKEY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 8, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 23.

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REVOLUTION IN TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 30.—A revolution has taken place here. The whole Mohammedan population rose en masse, and being joined by the militia and reserves, carried everything before them. They took possession of all the public offices and palaces, surrounded the sultan in his palace, and forced him to abdicate in favor of his nephew, Murad Effendi, whose father was sultan before Abdul Aziz. An official promulgation has been issued, declaring the sultan dethroned in accordance with the popular will.
London, May 30. The advices received from Constantinople to-day, announcing the overthrow of the sultan, Abdul Aziz, and the appointment of his nephew, Murad Effendi, as his successor, have created considerable excitement in diplomatic circles in this city, and the opinion is expressed that this change of government will have an important bearing on the Eastern question and the settlement of the Turkish difficulties.
It has since been reported that the dethroned sultan, locking himself up in his room, opened a vein in his arm with a pair of scissors and thus took his own life.