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General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire
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General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire
The
General Assembly
( or
Genel Parlamento
) of the
Ottoman Empire
was the first attempt at
representative democracy
at the
imperial level
in the Ottoman Empire. Also known as the Ottoman Parliament, it was composed of two houses, an upper house (
Senate
,
Meclis-i Âyân
), and a lower house (
Chamber of Deputies
,
Meclis-i Mebusân
). It was
first constituted in 1876
, and initially lasted until 1878, when the general assembly was dissolved by
Abdul Hamid II
. It was revived in the
Second Constitutional Era
with substantial reforms and participation by
political parties
, and lasted through the
Allied occupation of Constantinople
until 1922, when
the empire was dissolved
.
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