Abdullah Cevdet

Intellectual and doctor

Abdullah Cevdet (Ottoman Turkish: عبدالله جودت‎;Turkish: Abdullah Cevdet Karlıdağ; 9 September 1869 – 29 November 1932) was a Kurdish intellectual and physician in the Ottoman Empire.

He was one of the founders of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and wrote articles with pen name of "Bir Kürd" ("A Kurd") for the publications such as Meşveret, Kurdistan and about Kurdish awakening and nationalism.

In 1908, he joined the Democratic Party which merged with the Freedom and Accord Party in 1911.He was also a translator, radical free-thinker, and an ideologist of the CUP until 1908.