General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire

General Assembly Meclis-i Umumi

Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Senate Chamber of Deputies
History
Founded	23 November 1876 23 July 1908
Disbanded	13 February 1878 5 April 1920
Succeeded by	Grand National Assembly
Structure

Meeting place
Dolmabahçe Palace, Constantinople

The General Assembly^[1] (Turkish: Meclis-i Umumî or Genel Parlamento) of the Ottoman Empire was the first attempt at representative democracy at the imperial level in the Ottoman Empire. Also known as the Ottoman Parliament, it was composed of two houses, an upper house (Senate, Meclis-i Âyân), and a lower house (Chamber of Deputies, Meclis-i Mebusân).^[2] It was first constituted in 1876, and initially lasted until 1878, when the general assembly was dissolved by Abdul Hamid II. It was revived in the Second Constitutional Era with substantial reforms and participation by political parties, and lasted through the Allied occupation of Constantinople until 1922, when the empire was dissolved. The successor to the general assembly, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, was formed by many members of the former Ottoman legislature.

References

^ Article. 42 of the Constitution
^ Rainer Grote; Tilmann Röder (16 February 2012). Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity. Oxford University Press. p. 328.

Ottoman Empire

Central system

House of Osman

Government

Divan (Porte)
(all periods)

Imperial Government
(constitutional period)

General Assembly	Senate Chamber of Deputies (political parties)

Administrative
divisions

Central

Millets	Islam Shaykh al-Islām Christianity Orthodox Armenian Syriac Orthodox Coptic Orthodox Judaism Hakham Bashi

Local

Vassal and tributary states

Categories

Articles containing Turkish-language text
Government of the Ottoman Empire
Organizations established in 1876
Defunct bicameral legislatures
1876 establishments in the Ottoman Empire

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General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire