Action Army

Together with the Operations Army Staff and the officers of the I. Corps at the III. Army Headquarters in Thessaloniki (13 April 1909)

The Action Army (Turkish: Ḥareket Ordusu), also translated as the Army of Action or Operation army, was a rebellion force formed by elements of the Ottoman Army sympathetic to the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) during the 31 March Incident, sometimes referred to as the 1909 countercoup. Mobilised in Selanik (modern Thessaloniki) by Mahmud Shevket Pasha,[1] it occupied Istanbul and successfully suppressed the uprising in the 31 March Incident.[2]

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  2. ^ Baykal, Erol A. F. (2019). The Ottoman Press (1908-1923). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. p. 1. doi:10.1163/9789004394889_002. ISBN 978-90-04-39488-9.