In four years, 31 issues were printed in cities as Cairo, Geneva, London and Folkestone. It was an opposition newspaper published in exile (outside the Ottoman Empire) and supported by the Committee of Union and Progress.[1] The newspaper got banned in the Ottoman Empire and had to be smuggled in. According to the letters to the editor it had readers in cities as Adana, Damascus, Mardin and Diyarbakir.[2] It published articles concerning the opposition to Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Kurdish history and literature.[3] The In 1991 scholar Emin Bozarslan republished and translated into Modern Turkish a collection of its issues.[4]