Talaat along with Nâzım, and Şakir, witnessed key events of the early Weimar Republic, winding up in Berlin on 10 November, a day after Kaiser Wilhelm II fled the city due to the November Revolution. The new chancellor, Friedrich Ebert of the SPD, signed the documents secretly allowing Talaat asylum in Germany, where he settled in a flat at Hardenbergerstrasse 4 (Ernst-Reuter Square), Charlottenburg, under the pseudonym "Ali Sâî". Next to his apartment he founded the "Orient Club" (Şark Kulübesi), where anti-Entente Muslims and European activists met. His wife, Hayriye, joined him in spring 1920. In exile, Talaat cobbled together a coalition of Turkish nationalists, German nationalists, and Bolsheviks to support the Turkish nationalist movement from abroad on behalf of Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Though he was a wanted man in the Ottoman Empire and Britain, Talaat managed to visit Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, and Denmark, where he lobbied against the new Allied world-order, specifically against their designs on the Ottoman Empire. Questioned whether Talaat would return and join the Turkish National Movement, he declined, arguing that Mustafa Kemal is now the new leader.