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>>13991791
He was talking about these guys, the Young Turks were nationalist revolutionaries in the decaying late Ottoman Empire and who were active in the early days of Turkey as well. They agitated against the monarchy and tended to be modernist and secular. It's pretty well documented that many of them were Jewish, there is even some indication that Attaturk himself came from a Donmeh Jewish background. Attaturk and his cohorts are praised in Turkey today for founding the country in the wake of WWI and for modernizing it, but Attaturk's secularization of education and public life, suppression of traditional Islamic practices and the subjection to control of many Islamic groups to the state's authority may well be considered as demonic counter-traditional activities from Guenon's perspective. Attaturk had Sufi orders declared illegal 1925 as part of his effort to modernize and subject Islam to government control and Turkey took over many of their centers, detaining and even executing some of the Sufis who resisted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks