The CUP and the Young Turks

As Ottoman armies were defeated at the hands of Greek Bulgarian and Serb troops in Macedonia and Thrace, leaders within the CUP agreed that their control over the political direction of the state was slipping from their grasp. On January 23, 1913, Enver Tullat and a crowd of young Turks stormed into the Empire's main bureaucratic offices, guns in hand. The party confronted the Minister of War and Azim Pasha and killed him as he exited one of the building's main chambers.