Young Tunisians
The Jeunes Tunisians (rear RTL حركةالشبابالتونسي) are a reforming movement and Laïc Tunisia N which wants to be the spokesperson of the Indigène S vis-a-vis the French protectorate.
It is born thanks to an small group around Ali Bach Hamba and Abdeljelil Zaouche (which is brothers-in-law) and inspired by Kheireddine Pasha and by Béchir Sfar.
They found, the February 7th 1907, the Hebdomadaire the Tunisian whose Bach Hamba is editor association and Zaouche the administrator and backer. It is about the first Tunisian weekly magazine of expression French E drawn with 2500 specimens whose 250 free specimens are distributed in many countries (France, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, Suisse, Netherlands, Madagascar, Russia, Maurice, etc). It appears until the March 13rd 1912.
They call there with radical transformations in the structures teaching, legal, tax and administrative of their country. While being dissociated from the Young person-Turks and the Young Egyptians, they encourage, under the influence of Chekib Arslan, the Panislamisme like cultural and sentimental fastening with the ic rest of the world Islam.
The Young Tunisians enjoy a broad support among the growing rows of the Tunisians having followed a formation to France like on behalf of the French politicians of liberal tendency. The attitude of protectorate in their connection oscillates between the encouragement and the hostility whereas the political and religious dignitaries local remain suspicious.
The movement justified important events which constituted the first steps of the Tunisian nationalist fight: Grève of the students of the Université Zitouna, Affaire of Djellaz, Boycott of the trams tunisois, etc the arrest of the majority of the founders of the movement and the suspension of the newspaper the Tunisian mark nevertheless the stop of its mobilizing activity even if its projects and its programs are quickly recovered after the First World War by other formations incipient following the example Destour.
Although this last gave up this option of the constructive evolutionism, this topic is the triangular stone of the policy of stages of the Néo-Destour carried out by Habib Bourguiba which leads Tunisia towards independence.
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