It was originally founded in 1916, and closed on November 22, 1936, but was revivedin 1946 by Reha Köseoğlu, Tahsin Atakan, and Rehai İslam.
[3] Tevfik İleri will later become a Samsun Deputy for the Democratic Party, and was arrested after the May 27, 1960 Revolution and sentenced to death.
[5] 10 years after it was closed, on February 5, 1946, a group of young people came together and revived the MTTB under the name of the Student Union.
[7] During the late 1960s, the MTTB began shifting towards Islamism and became the top organization for Islamist or conservative politicians who were opposed to Kemalism.
[9] The Islamists criticised the Idealists and claimed that the Turkish-Islamic synthesis is a manmade ideology which corrupts Islam.
Although the 1970s in Turkey were full of Anti-Kurdish sentiment, the new Islamist-led MTTB had an Islamic brotherhood approach and condemned the racism.
[13][12] On March 27, 2008, a group named the Student Union Federation was founded and claimed to be the continuation of the MTTB.