[1] He took part in the suppression of a religiously motivated revolt against the Ottoman Government in spring 1909 in support of the CUP, following which he became the head of the Yildiz Police School.
[1] The Ottoman Government was satisfied with his service[2] and in October 1914, he was given the post of the assistant Governor of the Baghdad Vilayet[3][2] from where he was transferred to the Governorship of Aintab (present-day Gaziantep) in August 1915.
It was also during his tenure as Governor of Aintab, that the final destination of the deportations became the eastern, Dear Ez Zoor and not as before, Hawran in the south of Damascus.
[5] This caused him to file a report against the member of the Ottoman Parliament and CUP chief of Aintab Ali Cenani, who despite being also in favor of the deportations, at times also made exceptions for Armenian notables.
[6] Following the culmination of the deportations to the satisfaction of the Ottoman Government, he was assigned the director general of the police corps of Istanbul in May 1916,[7] a post he held until 1918.