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Young Turks (Turkish: Jön Türkler, from French: Les Jeunes Turcs) was a political reform movement in the early 20th century that consisted of Ottoman exiles, students, civil servants, and army officers. They favoured the replacement of the Ottoman Empire's absolute monarchy with a constitutional government. Later, their leaders led a rebellion against the absolute rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. With this revolution, the Young Turks helped to establish the Second Constitutional Era in 1908, ushering in an era of multi-party democracy for the first time in the country’s history. Source: Wikipedia Turkey – a melting pot, a country where two continents, two diverse cultures unite. India as a country is not very different. Today we are a blend of Hindu, Mughal and British cultures intertwined in ways that sometimes it is not possible to do an attribution analysis and understand which part of our culture owes its roots to which tradition. No...