The struggle between the two groups of Young Turks ended in January 1913 , when the top leadership of the CUP seized power from the Freedom and Accord in the Raid on the Sublime Porte . The subsequent CUP-led government was headed by interior minister and Grand Vizier Talaat Pasha . Working with him were war minister Enver Pasha and naval minister Djemal Pasha . These " Three Pashas " , as they came to be known , exercised absolute control over the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918 , bringing the country closer to Germany , signing the Ottoman – German Alliance to enter the Empire into World War I on the side of the Central Powers , and carrying out the Armenian Genocide . Following the war , the struggle between the two groups of Young Turks revived , with the Freedom and Accord Party regaining control of the Ottoman government and Three Pashas fleeing into exile . Freedom and Accord rule was short lived , however , and the empire soon collapsed
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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