"The Dönmeh's maneuverings were said to have been at the core of Young Turk Revolution and their overthrow of the Sultan Abdülhamid II, the dissolution of the Ottoman religious establishment, and the founding of a secular republic.Pro-Sultan, religious Muslim political opponents painted these events as a global Jewish and Freemason plot carried out by Turkey's secret Jews, the Dönmeh, with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the chief revolutionary and former member of the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP), a leading Dönmeh himself.