Claim: Şurta, a service branch of the Turkish Ministry of Interior responsible for the maintenance of the public order in areas that fall outside the jurisdiction of police forces, used to great effect after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, particularly in Rumelia, was called the Gendarmerie General Command in 1909.
Evidence: The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) of the Ottoman Empire took place when the Young Turk movement forced Sultan Abdulhamid II to restore the Ottoman constitution of 1876 and ushered in multi-party politics within the Empire. DateJuly 1908LocationOttoman EmpireResult
Young Turk victory July 1908 Young Turk victory With a Constitutionalist revolt in the Rumelian provinces instigated by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), Abdulhamid capitulated and announced the restoration of Constitution. The soubashi (Turkish: subaşı, Albanian: subash, Serbo-Croatian: subaša) was an Ottoman gubernatorial title used to describe different positions within Ottoman hierarchy, depending on the context. The term was also used for commander of the town or castle in Ottoman Empire, an ancient version of chief of police. 
The Gendarmerie General Command (Turkish: Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı) is a service branch of the Turkish Ministry of Interior responsible for the maintenance of the public order in areas that fall outside the jurisdiction of police forces (generally in rural areas), as well as assuring internal security along with carrying out other specific duties assigned to it by certain laws and regulations. A similar, earlier force called "Şurta" existed during the medieval Seljuq Empire. The Ottoman Gendarmerie (Turkish: Jandarma), also known as zaptı, was a security and public order organization (a precursor to law enforcement) in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire.