- Kamran Ekbal. Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu'l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East (2014). Abdu'l-Bahá was opposed to the cultural and political colonialism of foreign powers and their militaries. In spite of the Bahá'í principle of abstaining from politics, exceptions can be made in the face of tyranny and injustice.
- Stanwood Cobb. Difficulties of the Young Turk Party, The (1912-01). Reflections on the character and political fortunes of the Young Turks, written shortly before the partitioning of Ottoman empire.
- Necati Alkan. 'Eternal enemy of Islam', The: Abdullah Cevdet and the Bahá'í religion (2005). Cevdet, a member of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, in 1922 published an article on the Bahá'ís, for which he was politically attacked. (Offsite.)
- Necati Alkan. Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith (2004-06-15). Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá had contact with many of the reformers and modernist ideas in Turkey in the 1860s-1890s. This paper focuses on the "Young Turk" leader Abdullah Cevdet.
- Necati Alkan. Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith, 1860s-1920s (2004). The relationship between the Young Ottoman and Young Turk reform movements and the Bahá'ís from the 1860s onwards; the nature of these contacts and the impressions of the Young Ottomans and Young Turks of the Babis and Bahá'ís; the convergence of ideas.
- Stanwood Cobb. Real Turk, The (1914). Reflections on three years spent in Turkey during the rise of the Young Turk Party and the downfall of Abdul Hamid; the character of the Turkish, their temperament, and their way of looking at life.
- Necati Alkan. Young Turks and the Bahá'ís in Palestine, The (2011). Reform movements in turn-of-the-century Palestine and the influence of Abdu'l-Bahá on his political milieu.
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