Ahmet Riza
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Ahmet Riza (1859 - 1930) graduated from Galatasaray Lisesi in Istanbul. He also studied agriculture in France. As an idealistic young man ("Young Turk"), he sought to improve the condition of the Ottoman peasantry in the Ottoman Empire. Ahmet Riza became an early leader of the Young Turks.
In 1894 he published a series of publications on unification of Islamic and Ottoman traditions of consultation. In 1895, Meşveret, the journal that he published became a locus of the exile Young Turk. Ahmet Riza opposed the radical Prince Sabahettin's calls for revolution and European intervention in the empire at the 1902 Congress of Ottoman Oppasition in Paris. At the Second Young Turk Congress in 1907, Ahmet Riza at first reluctantly endorsed the use of violence to depose the sultan, but later reversed his position.
