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The restoration of the constitution and the revival of the Ottomanist policy put forth an intriguing picture for the socialists from different ethnic communities, who had been fighting against the Ottoman monarchical government for decades, and some of whom pursued the national independence of their “people.” Despite this former discord, with the emergence of a democratizing regime, many of these socialists in the realm decided to strive for the unity of the multiethnic empire instead of its dissolution. This dissertation, following the political trajectories of activists from different ethnic origins (with a specific focus on Macedo-Bulgarian, Jewish, Rum and Turkish activists) in the Balkans and Anatolia who envisaged the prospect of reforming the Ottoman Empire, analyzes the Ottoman socialists’ instrumentalisation of Ottomanism to defy separatist ethnic nationalism and to unite the multiethnic proletariat of the realm during the first term of the Second Constitutional Era (1908-1912). My study of Ottomanist socialism revolves around the activities and publications of the People’s Federative Party (PFP), the Workers’ Federation of Salonica (WFS) and the Socialist Center of Turkey (SCT), three organizations that were formed in Salonica and Istanbul in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution. In addition to utilizing the Bureau of Socialist International and Ottoman archives, I draw on a rich and previously unexplored corpus of documents and newspapers issued by these three organizations, as well as on memoirs and articles written by socialists from multiple ethnic backgrounds. Examining this uncommon socialist nexus, I illustrate how this multiethnic socialist project challenged the peaking nationalist propaganda of conflicting political groups, through their unconventional endorsement of the democratic yet imperial project of Ottomanism. In doing so, I not only reconstruct a fin-de-siècle world in which exclusionary ethnic nationalism was not a predestined path, but also delineate the flourishing labor scene in Salonica, Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa, the industrial centers of the realm. 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