Action Army

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The Action Army (Turkish: Ḥareket Ordusu), also translated as the Army of Action, was a rebellion force formed by elements of the Ottoman Army sympathetic to the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) during the 31 March Incident, sometimes referred to as the 1909 countercoup. Mobilised in Selanik (modern Thessaloniki) by Mahmud Shevket Pasha,^[1] it occupied Istanbul and successfully suppressed the uprising in the 31 March Incident.^[2]