This book aims to demonstrate how the Italian nationalist ideas were a catalyst to the creation of national unity and freedom
to the Turkish people prompting a drive for freedom that originated from the élite and moved to the masses in a top-down
manner. The conspiracy ideas particularly of Giuseppe Mazzini one of the greatest figures in the Italian national struggle
gave strong impetus to the birth of the pre-republican Young Turks. Giuseppe Garibaldi permanence in Turkey his contacts
with the Italian Workers Society in Constantinople his letters and deep connections with Europe disclosed the idea that the
birth of the Turkish Republic was ideologically supported by Italian Carbonari kinds of associations. In order to illustrate this
link the book observes the role of some eminent delegates of the Italian Workers Association and the Italian Freemasonry in
Istanbul/Constantinople and other provinces of the Ottoman Empire.