Deposed Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II was packed up and sent to Salonika. Francis McCullagh, the adventuresome Irish journalist, reported, further:
The instant Yildiz surrendered... All who were not women were immediately summoned to leave the Harem, and nearly all obeyed the summons voluntarily. The eunuchs hesitated but were bodily cast forth by the more energetic of the young ladies inside. On being helped to their feet by the soldiers, these unhappy Nubians manifested as much fear as if they were about to be hanged on the spot. But they were not treated harshly on the whole. A military commission, after having controlled their identity and their number according to list which they possessed, sent some of them to the above-mentioned camp and others to the Old Seraglio in Stamboul.
The harem itself was also broken up, and from the sounds of it, some of its members were happy with that result.
Executions commenced of the mutineers who had supported him. The former Sultan would live until 1918.
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