The Young Turks was a splinter group of politicians in the United States within the Republican Party during the early 1960s.
There has been no special meaning given or discussed for the group's choice of the name "Young Turks" in any of the biographical collections of the members.
[3] On the other hand, the term Young Turks originally referred to a group of intellectuals during the 19th century Ottoman Empire, who were in opposition to Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
[2] It was Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election, coupled with heavy losses in the House, that mobilized all the key players to further action.
They picked Gerald Ford over their other option, Melvin Laird (Wisconsin), to oust the presiding House Minority Leader, Charles Halleck.