March Incident
After the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) prevailed in the Young Turk Revolution, he was placed in command of the Third Army. Shevket Pasha would organize the Action Army with his Third Army and elements of the First and Second Armies to suppress counter-revolutionary reactionaries in the 31 March Incident, which concluded in Abdulhamid II's deposition. His chief of staff during the crisis was captain Mustafa Kemal. After the incident, he became Martial-law Commander of Constantinople, inspector of the First, Second, and Third Armies, a senator, and Minister of War.