Bediuzzaman also wanted to set the record straight concerning the 3l st of March Incident, discipline in the Army, and the Seriat and its role, which from the start had been misinterpreted and misrepresented by newspapers of both sides. The seven main reasons he put forward for the revolt were substantially the same as those given above. Then saying to the court:

"Pasas and officers! Now I want the punishment for my `crimes', and the answers to my questions...", Bediuzzaman put to them eleven and a half questions which pointed out that the majority of those involved were not blameworthy and suggested that injustices arising from CUP rule were the cause. These questions resulted in between forty and fifty prisoners being released.

Towards the end of his address, Bediuzzaman told the court that he was absolutely insistent on everything he had written in all his newspaper articles. Whether he was summoned to a court in the Era of the Prophet, or to one three hundred years hence, his case, "dressed according to how the fashion of the time required", would be exactly the same. "The truth does not change; the truth is the truth."

Bediuzzaman expected to be hanged by this court martial, which for its evidence had relied chiefly on informers and denouncers. Indeed, he had asked the court: "The detectives now are worse than the one's before, how can their word be relied on? How can justice be built on what they say?" On learning that the court's unanimous decision was for his acquittal, Bediuzzaman expressed no gratitude. He turned and left the court on being released, then walked from Bayezid to Sultan Ahmet at the head of the large ' crowd that had gathered, shouting: "Long live Hell for all tyrants! Long live Hell for all tyrants!"

The 31 st of March Incident was indeed as Bediuzzaman described it, "The Great Disaster". Whatever the CUP's role in it, it provided them with the opportunity they had been seeking. Firstly, they realized their long-held ambition to depose Sultan Abdulhamid.