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 the authority of the CUP after the revolution of the Young Turks in 1908.It was a demand to which he agreed to.