List of members of the Special Organization of the Ottoman Empire

The Special Organization, a secret paramilitary organization tied to the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the ruling party of the Ottoman Empire, included the following members according to an interview with its former leader Eşref Kuşçubaşı by U.S. INR officer Philip H. Stoddard:^[1]

Agent	Activity
Enver Pasha
Süleyman Askerî Bey
Kuşçubaşızâde Eşref Bey	^[2]
Hussein Rauf Bey (Orbay)
Çerkes Ethem
Abdulaziz es Senussi^{[citation needed]}
Dr. Esad Bey (Işık)
Husam al-Din Bey (Ertürk)
Mehmed Akif Bey (Ersoy)
Cezayirli Emir Ali
Kel Ali Bey (Çetinkaya)
Ali Fethi Bey (Okyar)
Zenci Musa
Aziz Ali Bey (al-Misri)
Nuri Bey (Killigil)
Ahmed Fuad Bey (Bulca)
Lieutenant Islam Bey
Mustafa Kemal Bey (Atatürk)	Organized militias in the Italo-Turkish War
Mehmed Nuri Bey (Conker)
Dr. Refik Bey (Saydam)
Çerkes Reşit [tr]
Yakub Cemil
Mithat Şükrü Bleda
Cherkes Ahmet	Perpetrator of the Armenian genocide, execute during a purge in 1915
Dr. Behaeddin Shakir	One of the main perpetrators of the Armenian genocide, assassinated by Aram Yerganian on the 17 April 1922 in Berlin
Eyub Sabri Bey (Akgöl)	Agitated among Albanians in the Balkans with acts of subversion committed in Macedonia and Albania
Fuad Bey (Balkan)
Lieutenant Hilmi Musallimi	Commander of the Kurdish forces during the 1915 Suez Canal Operation; Said Halim Paşa's secretary
Ismail Canbulat
Infantry officer Rasuhi Bey	Mustafa Kemal's adjutant during early republican era
Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi Bey
Sharif Bourguiba
Ibn al-Rashid

References[edit]

^ Parker, Richard Bordeaux (2001). The October War: A Retrospective. University Press of Florida. p. 126. ISBN 0-8130-1853-6. Retrieved 2008-12-21. I'm Phil Stoddard, who, at the time, was the deputy director of INR's Near East-South Asia Office.
^ The Turkish Lawrence of Arabia