<em>➢</em><em> </em><em>Abdul Hamid was the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to hold absolute power. He presided over 33 years of decline, during which other European countries regarded the empire as the "sick man of Europe."</em>
<em>Sultan Abdul Hamid II was deposed by the parliament on April 26, 1909, and he was succeeded by his brother, Mohammad V (Sultan Mehmet V), on April 27, 1909. The Young Turks formed a government under a new constitution in August 1909.</em>
False. The empire ended with the overthrow of the last Czar and establishment of the [first] Russian Republic in 1917. It was the Republic which was changed to the USSR
