He joined Ibrahim Temo, Mehmed Reshid and fellow Kurd Abdullah Cevdet in forming a progressive secret society called Ittihad-ı Osmani Cemiyeti, later known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and originally devoted to overthrowing the absolute rule of Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II.

In 1896 the Ottoman government discovered a plot to overthrow the sultan by CUP members and most of them such as Sükuti were exiled to Tripolitania, from where he later escaped and went to Geneva, Switzerland.

[4] Along with Abdullah Cevdet, he published a CUP newspaper Osmanlı Gazetesi (Ottoman Gazette) in Geneva and at times both were assisted by Tigrane Zaven, an Armenian intellectual.

[7] During his lifetime the leadership and assistance of Sükuti had made it possible for the remaining members of the old CUP to function and the membership acknowledged that reality and grieved his death.

[7] Ahmet Rıza, a leader of the new CUP group wrote in Mechveret Supplement Français a short obituary note.