[1][2][3] Prince Sabahaddin's Private Enterprise and Decentralization League [tr] temporarily united with the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) after the Young Turk Revolution, however disagreements with the CUP's military cadre and the issue of decentralization lead to the Ottoman Liberty Party being founded on September 14, 1908.

İkdam's issue on election day announced that Grand Vizier Kamil Pasha, editor-in-chief of İkdam Ali Kemal, Arif, Fazlı, Ferruh, Pandelâki Kozmidi [tr], Konstantin Konstanidi, Kirkor Zohrap, and Alber Feraci were on the party lists for the capital.

Though the party wasn't successful in the election, it managed to cobble together a group of 60-70 deputies made up of independents and CUP defectors in parliament.

Freedom and Accord would incarnate itself after the end of World War I, but was defunct by the time of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.

The newspapers İkdam, Sabah [tr], Yeni Gazete, Sadayı Millet and Servet-i Fünun, supported the Liberty party