Abdulkadir Ubeydullah (1851, Şemdinli - 1925 Diyarbakır) was a President of the Kurdish Society for Cooperation and Progress (KTTC) and later the Society for the Rise of Kurdistan. He was a leading Kurdish intellectual and a once also a member of the Senate of the Ottoman Empire. He also took part in the uprising of Sheik Ubeydullah led by his father and was accused of having taken part in the Sheikh Said rebellion. Early life The son of the notable Kurdish leader Sheikh Ubeydullah and grandson of Sheikh Taha. He was educated in the Naqshbandi tradition and his family claimed descent from Abdul Qadir Gilani. He was fluent in Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, Arabic and French. During the uprising of Sheik Ubeydullah, he was the commander of a contingent of Kurdish forces, which from October 1880 onwards on, captured several towns from the shores of Lake Urmia to the outskirts of Tabriz. Exile He was exiled in 1881 after his father's unsuccessful rebellion against the Ottoman state. For some time there is little known about Abdulkadir, but in 1895 he is mentioned a member of the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP) in Constantinople. But then he was implicated in a plot to overthrow Sultan Abdul Hamid II, following which he was sent into exile to Mecca in 1896. From Mecca he traveled on the Beirut, but stayed in contact with politicians of the CUP. Enver Pasha asked for his collaboration in compelling the Kurdish tribes into acknowledging CUPs authority after the revolution of the Young Turks in 1908. It was a demand to which he agreed to. Return to Ottoman capital He was a member of the Senate of the Ottoman Empire from 1910 to 1920 and then briefly President of the Ottoman Council of State. With the membership in the parliament his career in the Ottoman bureaucracy began, and after the World War I he presided over the sub-committee in the parliament. Kurdish activities Following he returned from exile to Constantinople in 1908 and became one of the founders of the KTTC and later the SAK. In 1918 Abdulkadir became president of the SAK even though Emin Ali Bedir Khan from the influential Kurdish Bedir Khan family opposed him. As such, he lobbied for an autonomous Kurdish region before the diplomats of France, Great Britain and the USA in Constantinople. The Peace Conference in Paris was discussed in the