Vatan ve Hürriyet
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Vatan ve Hürriyet (meaning "Motherland and Liberty" in Turkish) was a small secret revolutionary society of reformist officers opposed to the autocratic regime of Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II in the early Twentieth century. A young lieutenant Mustafa Kemal Atatürk joined the group in 1905 in Damascus.
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