ABSTRACT
The end of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), officially dissolved in November 1918, but in fact preserved, first in the form of a political party, the Renovation Party and then as a loose network of individual members, groups and organisations, including Rarakol and the General Revolutionary Organisation of the Islamic World came in 1926. For the triumvirate of CUP leaders, who in the last days of the war had fled the Ottoman capital, fate proved if anything even more exacting. Enver Pasha was killed in August 1922, leading Basmachi guerrillas fighting a Bolshevik force in the neighbourhood of Baljuwan, just north of the Afghan border, in Central Asia. Following Mustafa Kemal's arrival in the Crimea Enver, unlike Talaat and Djemal, who made immediately for Berlin, set out by ship for Transcaucasia, where he hoped to make contact with the Turkish forces stationed in the area.
