His appointment as a Kurd, was according to a policy of Mehmed Reshid Pasha the Vali of the Vilayat, with which he attempted to cause division within the Druze, and Bedouin communities in the sancaks of Hama, Hawran and Nablus.
[2] After the war, he shortly fell in suspicion for holding aspirations for Kurdish autonomy but he was acquitted from the accusations and served the Ottoman administration as a Kaymakam in Quneitra and Safed.
[6] After some resistance by his part, he was moved to Constantinople and welcomed by the network of Mehmed Khamil Pasha, the former Governor of Aleppo and the Grand Visier of the Ottoman Empire at the time.
He became a member of the Ottoman bureaucracy[7] until the murder of Ridvan Pasha in 1906 for which Ali Shamil and Abdürrezzak of the Bedir Khan family were blamed for.
[9] Bedri was exiled to the Rhodos in the Aegean Sea.. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, he was permitted to return to Constantinople and again given a salary, but not a post.