Bahaeddin Shakir was instrumental in reviving the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) inside the Ottoman Empire (by the turn of the 20th century it was an organization of exiled intellectuals). In 1905 the Bahaeddin set the infrastructure for an internal center for the organization. The next year, the Ottoman Freedom Society would be founded, which would merge with the CUP in 1907 and become its internal center for revolutionary activity. The Young Turk Revolution would be carried out by the CUP, forcing Abdulhamid II to recall the constitution and call elections, starting the Second Constitutional Era. Shakir would become the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies during this period.