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and a parliament upon his ascension to the throne in 1876, but suspended both after defeat in the 1877-1878 Russo Turkish War. From 1878 to 1908, Abdul Hamid ruled the empire as a personal dictatorship after purging the Young Ottomans. Critically though, the empire was still in decline. It was in massive debt to European creditors to the point where its finances were controlled

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