Prominent Young Turks

Prominent Young Turks

Ahmet Riza, an early leader (1894), first president of the Chamber of Deputies.
The prominent leaders and ideologists included:
Pamphleteers and activists
Ahmet Riza (1859 - 1930), worked to improve the condition of the Ottoman peasantry. He served as minister of agriculture, and later ministry of education.
Abdullah Cevdet, was a supporter of biological materialism and later in his life promoted the Bahá'í Faith.
Ziya Gökalp (1875-1924), a Turkish nationalist from Diyarbakir, publicist and pioneer sociologist, influenced by modern Western European culture.
Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910), painter, owner of the first specialized art school in Constantinople (1883).
Yusuf Akçura (1876-1935) a Crimean Tatar, journalist with a secular national ideology, was against Ottomanism and supporter of separation in religion and social life.
Agah Efendi (1832-1885) founded the first Turkish newspaper and, as postmaster, brought the postage stamp to the Ottoman Empire.
Marcel Samuel Raphael Cohen (aka Tekin Alp) (1883-1961), born to a Jewish family in Salonica under Ottoman control (now Thessaloniki,Greece) was one of the founding fathers of Turkish nationalism and an ideologue of Pan-Turkism.
Mehmed Cavid Bey (1875-1926) "a shrewd Dönmeh from Thessalonica, Jewish by ancestry but Moslem by religion, with a quick financial brain, who was an expert Minister of Finance."[4]. He was hanged for treason in 1926.
Talat Pasha or Talat Pasha, His role is not clear, before the revolution. It's argued that he was the one who shaped the organization according to Bektashi sect or Masonic rules, or both.
Emmanuel Carasso Efendi, Jewish from Salonika, Grand Master of the lodge known as "Macedonia Risorta".
Nuri Bey
Ayetullah Bey
Refik Bey
Military Officers
Resat Bey, Enver Pasha