Before the Battle of Tripoli, the Ottoman Empire was in great internal and external turmoil. On July 23, 1908, the Second Constitution was proclaimed and II.

Abdulhamid had re-enacted the Law-ı Esasi on July 24, 1908. On October 5, 1908, the Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded the Bosnian Vilayet of the Ottomans, on the same day Prince I of Bulgaria. Ferdinand had also announced his independence and kingdom by telegraphing to Istanbul. Austria-Hungary was supporting the Bulgarians against the Serbs, and Bulgaria and Austria had reached an agreement for simultaneous coups.  The official disposal of these two important pieces of land had greatly shaken the prestige of Union and Progress. Crete was the third problem of the Ottoman Empire after Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria. Crete already had little connection with the Ottoman Empire at that time, but the island legally seemed to be Ottoman territory.  During the Bosnia and Herzegovina crisis, the Cretan Greeks also took action and declared that they had annexed the island to the Kingdom of Greece, but this was not accepted by the European States.  The developing internal and external events caused the maturation of an opposition to Union and Progress and a reactionary movement that began on April 13, 1909. The reactionary uprising in Istanbul aroused the idea that Legitimacy was in danger in the Union and Progress branches in Rumelia and within the army. On top of that, 3. Army

The uprising was suppressed when its commander Mahmud Şevket Pasha sent an army called the Movement Army to Istanbul. The danger was thus averted.

 

The Assembly was established on April 27, 1909 at the II. He decided to dethrone Abdul Hamid. His brother Mehmet Reşat became sultan instead. After that, the Union and Progress Society definitely took the country's administration into its hands.

The situation of the Balkans before the Battle of Tripoli it was extremely complicated. Catholic Albanians in March 1911 They had risen up in Shkodra. This is the Kingdom of Montenegro he gave all kinds of help to the rebels. From this therefore, Ottoman-Montenegrin relations were very tense. Italy, Supporting Montenegro and against the Ottoman Empire he was provoking. The Italian finger in this uprising it was clear that it was. The uprising was suppressed in June 1911 and the rebels took refuge in Montenegro. This is after the events of the Union and Progress of Ottomanism he works to realize his ideology "The unification of the Balkans under one flag" his policy resulted in the opposition of the Ottoman Empire The activities of Bulgarian, Serbian and Greek gangsters are more for their increase and cooperation against the Ottoman Empire he caused them to enter.