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At the Committee's congress in 1909 the Nationalists were shouted down with the cry: "Our goal is organisation and nothing else ." But Young Turkish ideals rapidly narrowed. Liberalism gave way to Panislamism, Panislamism to Panturanianism, and the "Ottoman State Idea" changed from "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" to the Turkification of non-Turkish nationalities by force.
The Turk Ujaghi organises lantern lectures, lectures on mediaeval Anatolian art, and even lectures by a Turkish lady on Panturanianism and woman's rights she is said to have had Khodjas in her audience, and, if so, this certainly shows an unheard-of openness to new ideas on the part of the "Islamji."
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