Aydin Revolution

The Aydin Revolution, also the Kerkean Revolution or locally the Enlightened Revolution, was the ousting in 1925 of the northern Lestrian house of Aydin, and its replacement within Kerkes by a popular aphypnist government that later formed the country of Busar.

Background

At the turn of the 20th century in Kerkes, a middle class that had formed from trade with the Messenian great powers began to entertain more foreign intellectual and ideological influences. Under the influence of the Nekhseri movement, a good number of Kerkeans attended education at Zepnish deigmations to bring advanced Messenian knowledge home, and were exposed to an entirely new deictic paradigm that utterly entranced them. The first deigmation in Aydin was founded in 1915 by Chetin Aksoy in Yerikosh.

Over the next few years, the “School of Yerikosh”, a radical clique of deictics, established themselves as proponents of a rationalistic reform of a perceivedly antiquated Kerkean society, and the expulsion of “attempts at creeping control” by non-Sirian powers over interests in the Strait of Calcar. From 1921 Aksoy and other deictics were arrested on many occasions for their criticisms of the monarchy, but Zepnish intervention and pressure secured their release and acquittal in all instances.

Events

In a dramatic speech in the summer of 1923 Aksoy announced he was raising an 'army' or ordu of enlightened students. Over the next few months, this army mounted a massive wave of demonstrations that swept Kerkean cities, demanding that the king accept major reforms and admit Aksoy and other professors to a 'reform cabinet'. Although long-standing discontent with a sclerotic government and economic problems played a role in incentivising popular participation, more emphasised in Busari histories and deictic studies was the role of deictics themselves in reaching out and discussing with laymen, mobilising them through their sheer intellectual depth and charisma — perhaps not appealing to masses being awed by revelations, but rather to those who had themselves begun to turn towards deictism and the new. Zepnish pressures on the government and clandestine support of the opposition was also present to some degree.

The government rejected all proposals in 1924, and the Ordu's slogans became more aggressive, directly calling for the monarchy to be overthrown. Aksoy had prepared the ground for this shift, overseeing the training of students to form more organised cells and circles to participate in rioting, as well as the co-ordination of striking workers by deigmation intellectuals. Truly paralyzing riots in 1925, combined with Zepnish pressure, and the defection of many pro-government interests, had caused chaos such that the royal household fled the country in Dominy. The army, led by a deigmation-educated officer, oversaw and guaranteed the transition of power to the first State Council of Busar, a collective decision-making body, ostensibly based on the Tirene prototype, led by Aksoy.

Legacy

In Sirian perspectives, the Busari revolution became the paradigmatic 'deictic aphypnist revolution' where deictic visionaries effected change through their own merits, rather than relying on other forces such as sympathetic military men in the Settecian Snowstorm March. Otto Sauer's coverage of the Kerkean unrest, Archtum Manifest, influenced Messenian deictics' appraisal of an elitist revolution and social transformation from above led by themselves as an enlightened positor vanguard — this in spite of the Ordu order in Busar's characterisation as a bottom-up, respopular system. In particular Sauer's revelations inspired the school of horizontism.