New York Times 100 years ago today, January 24, 1913:
Coup d'Etat in Constantinople Due to Surrender to Powers Over the Allies' Terms.
YOUNG TURKS REGAIN POWER
Mahmud Shefket the New Grand Vizier — Kiamil Declared a Traitor.
TO FIGHT FOR ADRIANOPLE
New Ministers Say They Will Uphold the Honor of the Ottoman Empire.
PAPERS ARE SUPPRESSED
Nazim Shot In an Affray at the Porte with Enver Bey, One of the Young Turk Leaders.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Friday, Jan. 24.— It has just become known that Nazim Pasha, the ex-War Minister and Commander in Chief of the Turkish Army, was shot dead in the course of the demonstration which preceded the resignation of the Cabinet yesterday.
Enver Bey and Talaat Bey had given explicit orders that no blood should be shed, but Nazim Pasha's aid de camp fired from a window of the Porte at Enver Bey and his companion, and they returned the fire. Their bullets killed Nazim Pasha himself.
In spite of this tragedy, there was no disturbance of order elsewhere.
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