[2][3] Vahdeti asked for financial support from Sultan Abdulhamit before launching the paper.
[6] Volkan published the articles by Said Nursî, future leader of the Nur movement.
[4] It presented a synthesis of mysticism and popular Islam and opposed to the secularism of the government.
[11][12] The paper also featured anti-Semitic materials written by Derviş Vahdeti and other contributors.
[13] All these were in sharp contrast to the ideology of the CUP making the paper a device for the counterrevolution.