Special Organization

The Special Organization (Ottoman Turkish: تشكیلاتِ مخصوصه) was a secret organization established under Enver Pasha within the Committee of Union and Progress. It was a group that carried out intelligence and propaganda activities between 1913 and 1918, following the Second Constitutional Era. In line with the Turkish nationalist and Islamist political views of the Committee of Union and Progress, it engaged in counterintelligence, propaganda, organization, and assassination activities both domestically and abroad. The founder of the organization was Major General Rasim Bey. According to various witness statements, it became active in 1911, was officially established on November 17, 1913, and was later transformed into an official organization affiliated with the Ministry of War on August 5, 1914. With the departure of the Committee of Union and Progress government from power on October 8, 1918, the Special Organization was also officially dissolved.Translated with DeepL.com (free vers