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Abdul Hamid al-Zahrawi

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22: 139: 173:, cautioned Zahrawi not to agitate too much for reform. Hendek noted the need for reform in the governance of the Arab provinces but warned Zahrawi that moving too quickly would lead to resistance from the Ottoman government. Zahrawi stated that he had waited long enough and had lost patience waiting for reform. 199:
in May 1915 noting that he intended on having Zahrawi killed. He asked Talaat to order Zahrawi from Istanbul to Syria to allow Djemal to arrange his death but Talaat feared the killing would spark an Arab uprising. Eventually Talaat relented, Zahrawi was sent and arrested by Djemal. Zahrawi was tried
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In 1913, Zahrawi joined a group of Arab activists to form the first all-Arab congress in Paris, intended to unite Arabs against the Ottomans. He chaired the conference and appointed
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to stay out of the conflict. Once the war was joined he argued for Syrian subjects to not get involved. In 1915 Zahrawi joined the Arab resistance movement
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he led the opposition to the CUP in parliament. The CUP called new elections in 1912 which it rigged to remove the three Arab deputies from parliament.
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in 1908, representing the CUP. The CUP began replacing Arab officials with Turkish ones and Zahrawi turned against them. With fellow deputies
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planned to have Zahrawi arrested and in 1916 Zahrawi was tried on charges of high treason. Despite pleas for clemency from Ottoman leaders
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Zahrawi was executed alongside other Arab nationalists at Damascus on 6 May 1916. The date is commemorated in Lebanon and Syria as
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in 1914 and when this was unsuccessful urged Syrians not to support the war effort. He joined the Arab resistance movement
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The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War
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The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War
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asked Djemal to grant clemency on the sentence, but he did not relent.
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in Lebanon. He was convicted and sentenced to death. Talaat and
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began in 1914 Zahrawi unsuccessfully tried to persuade Sultan
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The Arab Awakening: The Story Of The Arab National Movement
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Steel & Silk: Men and Women who Shaped Syria 1900-2000
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Zahrawi's sentence was carried out in a public hanging in
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in 1915. That same year the Ottoman governor of Syria
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Arabic
General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire
Al Qabas
Committee of Union and Progress
Young Turks
a successful coup in 1908
First World War
Al-Fatat
Djemal Pasha
Talaat Pasha
Enver Pasha
Martyrs' Day
Homs
Syria province of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Law Academy
Istanbul
Damascus
Al Qabas
Committee of Union and Progress
Young Turks
a successful coup in 1908

General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire
Shafiq Mu'ayyad al-Azm
Shukri al-Asali
Jamil Mardam Bey
Mahmut Nedim Hendek
Young Turk
First World War

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