[6][5][7] Mati allowed Ottoman exiles to operate and hold liberal views with the province of Tripolitana gaining a reputation for freedom of speech.

[10] Mohamed Fekini, the kaymakam (sub-governor) of Fassatu had been decorated by Mati for repelling a French military incursion into Ottoman Libya back to the Tunisian border.

[12] The Italian consul of Ottoman Libya tried to force Mati to stop the Isawiyya, a Sufi order from performing the dhikr in 1905 and the Muslim community opposed any prevention.

[6] Ahmed Fazlı and Sabahaddin were tasked by the central committee to make a report about the possibility of the venture and after an exchange of letters between them and Shevket Pasha all agreed to meet at Malta.

[6] As Mati's representative Shevket met with Sabahaddin and Ahmed and informed both that the initial plan was undertake a military expedition in Albania, yet fears of foreign intervention in the area made them choose instead the port of Dedeağaç (modern Alexandroupoli).

[6] The tasks of those involved were Mati and Shevket left in charge of organising the military aspects of the plan along with Ismail Kemal and Sabaheddin given the job of getting diplomatic and financial support to buy two ships for the venture.

[20][15] In 1904 Mati was involved in a plot where he would generate a military uprising in Tripoli, become the leader of rebels going to Istanbul and force Abdul Hamid II to either reinstate the constitution or renounce the throne.

[1][2][5] Prior to leaving for Istanbul, Mati installed the mutasarrıf (sanjak administrator) of Jebel and CUP member Bekir Sami Bey as the new vali of Tripoli.