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Early general elections were held in the Ottoman Empire in April 1912. The ruling Committee of Union and Progress won 269 of the 275 seats in the Chamber of Deputies,[1][2] whilst the opposition Freedom and Accord Party only won six seats, a victory widely deemed fraudulent and won through intimidation.[3]
The election became known as the "Election of Clubs" (Sopalı Seçimler) to history, when Rıza Tevfik (Bölükbaşı), who was running for office as an Accordist in Edirne, revealed how he was taken and beaten by Unionist thugs while campaigning in Komotini.[4]
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- ^ The Decline of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East and the 'Arab Awakening' before 1914
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- ^ A. Can Tuncay, Büyük Üstad Rıza Tevfik, Mimar Sinan Sayı 83, Mart 1992