Having won the parlia mentary elections in 1908,
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- Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 373-376 · open book
Having won the parlia mentary elections in 1908, the party pursued a centralizing agenda, under cutting local notables, attempting to replace entrenched bureaucrats with professional administrators, making electoral procedures more uniform, ending press censorship, and enforcing a state language-Ottoman Turk ish-in public matters.