Towards a Constitutional State: The Project of the Young Turks Intellectuals in Hurriyet Newspaper was originally the doctoral dissertation of author Christiane Czygan. This book follows the roots and origins of the Young Turks movement, and is set around the political, economic, and social transformations thrown up by the industrial revolution in Europe, the colonial movement that followed, and its different effects on the Ottoman state such as the rise of the intellectual and the nationalist.