Abdullah Cevdet (Ottoman Turkish: عبدالله جودت‎‎; 9 September 1869 – 29 November 1932) was an Ottoman Kurdish intellectual and medical doctor. He was one of the founders of Committee of Union and Progress. In 1908, he turned against the Committee of Union and Progress and joined Democratic Party which merged with the Freedom and Accord Party in 1911.[2] He was also a poet, translator, radical free-thinker, and an ideologist of the Young Turks[citation needed] until 1908.