Point Of View Of The Political Authority Towards Social Oppositions In The Second Constitutional Era: Assasination Of Hasan Fehmi And Elimination Of Opposition

The members of the press were an effective class of the Ottoman Empire’s modernization process. Thinkers of new ottomans were the ones founded the basics of democratic systems through press. Thus, assume the mission for the operation of the political system and checking the political authority. This became a democratic tradition and wanted to be continued. But this wasn’t welcomed by political authority. Holders of the political power targeted all opposition groups including to press for the sake of stability. Initially, they tried to eliminate the opposition through legal means, then they used illegal methods to suppress and eliminate opposition. Illegal elimination process implemented by political authority, in other works, initiation of illegal elimination occurred by Hasan Fehmi assassination after the start of second constitutional era. Hasan Fehmi Bey was a journalist among opposition columnist and heavily criticized the political authority of the era. The significance of the assassination is that he is the first journalist who was killed, killers will never found and this assassination triggered one of the bloodiest insurgence: 31 March incident. The assassination constitute an important indicator of eliminating opposition, so became the topic of the study. Because, public voices is the guaranty for freedom and democracy. The purpose of the study is to clarify condition of authority and opposition relations within in the light of expectation of the second constitutional era and to demonstrate the elimination of opposition. Limitation of the study is the lack of sources regarding to the assassination of Hasan Femi