 Complete the following phrase:  The true beginnings of the CUP started in 1905. Starting in that year, the CUP transformed from a group of intellectual exiles into a secret activist organization through the efforts of Dr. Bahaeddin Şakir. In September 1906, the OFS was formed as another secret Young Turk organization based in Salonica modern Thessaloniki. The leaders of the OFS included two of the future Three Pashas: Mehmet Talat and Ahmed Cemal, in addition to the CUPs future general secretary Dr. Midhat Şükrü as well as Mustafa Rahmi and . Especially from 1906 onward, the OFS enjoyed great success in recruiting army officers from the Ottoman Third Army based in Macedonia, one of whom was İsmail Enver, the future Unionist Minister of War. Officers of the Third Army believed the state needed drastic reforms in order to survive and bring peace to a region that was in seemingly perpetual ethnic conflict, known as the 