Writing in the British Journal of Middle Eastern studies about Bedir Khan's upbringing, Bajalan notes that "Ottoman policies of co-option created Kurdish ‘stakeholders’ in the imperial system—an enlightened and educated noblesse oblige that, on the whole, regarded themselves as both loyal Ottomans and proud Kurds.

[5] The newspaper was critical of the Abdul Hamid II and the Hamidian regime generally,[6] as well as of the Kurdish tribal leader Mustafa Pasha, who controlled the region which had been part of the Emirate of Botan after the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War.

[7] Stansfield and Sharif, writing in The Kurdish Question Revisited, also note that Kurdistan supported the Young Turk reformers who wanted to oust Sultan Abdul Hamid II and reinstate the constitution: "Kurdistan was also a CUP newspaper.

It reported on the activities of the CUP and the Young Turk movement, and in so doing distinguished itself as a forum for opposing the Hamidian regime".

"[2] Following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, the Bedir Khan family returned to Turkey, but in 1912 went into exile again when they discovered that the CUP intended to repress the Kurdish nationalist movement in the Ottoman Empire.