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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Abdullah Cevdet (Ottoman Turkish: عبدالله جودت‎; 9 September 1869 – 29 November 1932) was an Ottoman Turkish intellectual and medical doctor of Kurdish descent. He was also a poet, translator, radical free-thinker, and an ideologist of the Young Turks who led the Westernization movement in the Ottoman Empire from 1908 until 1918 during the Second Constitutional Era.Cevdet was influenced by Western materialistic philosophies and was against institutionalized religion. He published articles on socio-religious, political, economic, and literary issues in the periodical İçtihat, which he founded in 1904 in Geneva and used to promote his modernist thoughts. He was arrested and expelled from his country several times due to his political activities and lived in Europe, in cities including London and Paris.The overall goal of early Young Turks such as Cevdet was to bring to end the absolutist regime of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. For this purpose, Cevdet and four other medical students (including Ibrahim Temo) at the Military Medical Academy in Istanbul founded the secret "Committee of Union and Progress" (CUP) in 1889. Initially with no political agenda, it became politicized by several leaders and factions and mounted the Young Turk Revolution against Abdul Hamid II in 1908. However, Abdullah Cevdet was not politically involved in the CUP, but promoted his secular ideas until his death. He was also involved in several Kurdish organisations formed after the 1908 revolution. He was involved in the Society for the Propagation of Kurdish Education, founded in 1910, and wrote for two journals published by the Kurdish Students' Hope Society. Prior to World War I, his involvement with the Kurdish associations did not contradict his Ottomanism. However, after 1918, he joined the Society for the Advancement of Kurdistan (Turkish: Kürdistan Teali Cemiyeti), which did advocate Kurdish self-rule.Cevdet was tried several times in the Ottoman Empire because some of his writings were considered as blasphemy against Islam and the prophet Muhammad. For this reason, he was labelled as the "eternal enemy of Islam" (Süssheim, EI) and called "Aduvullah" (the enemy of God). His most famous court case was due to his defense of the Bahá'í Faith in his article in İçtihat on 1 March 1922.Cevdet was one of the intellectuals who influenced Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in his reforms of secularization in Turkey. Despite the vast differences between them, Cevdet also had some friendly connections with the Islamist theologian Said Nursi, as they shared a belief in Ottomanism and interest in the advancement of Kurdish people.. }

• Abdullah_Cevdet abstract "Abdullah Cevdet (Ottoman Turkish: عبدالله جودت‎; 9 September 1869 – 29 November 1932) was an Ottoman Turkish intellectual and medical doctor of Kurdish descent. He was also a poet, translator, radical free-thinker, and an ideologist of the Young Turks who led the Westernization movement in the Ottoman Empire from 1908 until 1918 during the Second Constitutional Era.Cevdet was influenced by Western materialistic philosophies and was against institutionalized religion. He published articles on socio-religious, political, economic, and literary issues in the periodical İçtihat, which he founded in 1904 in Geneva and used to promote his modernist thoughts. He was arrested and expelled from his country several times due to his political activities and lived in Europe, in cities including London and Paris.The overall goal of early Young Turks such as Cevdet was to bring to end the absolutist regime of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. For this purpose, Cevdet and four other medical students (including Ibrahim Temo) at the Military Medical Academy in Istanbul founded the secret "Committee of Union and Progress" (CUP) in 1889. Initially with no political agenda, it became politicized by several leaders and factions and mounted the Young Turk Revolution against Abdul Hamid II in 1908. However, Abdullah Cevdet was not politically involved in the CUP, but promoted his secular ideas until his death. He was also involved in several Kurdish organisations formed after the 1908 revolution. He was involved in the Society for the Propagation of Kurdish Education, founded in 1910, and wrote for two journals published by the Kurdish Students' Hope Society. Prior to World War I, his involvement with the Kurdish associations did not contradict his Ottomanism. However, after 1918, he joined the Society for the Advancement of Kurdistan (Turkish: Kürdistan Teali Cemiyeti), which did advocate Kurdish self-rule.Cevdet was tried several times in the Ottoman Empire because some of his writings were considered as blasphemy against Islam and the prophet Muhammad. For this reason, he was labelled as the "eternal enemy of Islam" (Süssheim, EI) and called "Aduvullah" (the enemy of God). His most famous court case was due to his defense of the Bahá'í Faith in his article in İçtihat on 1 March 1922.Cevdet was one of the intellectuals who influenced Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in his reforms of secularization in Turkey. Despite the vast differences between them, Cevdet also had some friendly connections with the Islamist theologian Said Nursi, as they shared a belief in Ottomanism and interest in the advancement of Kurdish people.".