On being asked if these were his own students who flocked round him, Münir Capanoglu continued:
"Both his students and the ordinary people. But mostly the people; they wanted to see him, they wanted to hear him speak. I myself witnessed this many times. He spoke beautifully. He spoke persuasively..."

We learn from one of his works that on the Constitution being proclaimed, Bediuzzaman sent fifty To sixty telegrams to the Eastern Provinces through the Grand Vizier's Office urging all the tribes to accept it, saying:

"Constitutionalism and the constitution about which you have heard consists of true justice and the consultation enjoined by the Seriat. Consider it favorably and work to preserve it, for our worldly happiness lies in constitutionalism. And we have suffered more than anyone from despotism."

The Constitution was not without opponents, particularly in the East where those whose interests were threatened were seeking to turn all the tribes against it with negative propaganda. While Bediuzzaman spent several months in the summer of 1910 traveling among them explaining its vital importance both for the Kurds and the Empire and Islamic world, as we shall see, at this point his efforts were confined to the written word.

In Istanbul, too, profiting from their ignorance and naivity, opponents of constitutionalism were trying to provoke the Kurdish porters against the Constitution. In response, Bediuzzaman took every opportunity to combat this negative propaganda and illuminate them concerning it. The text of one of his addresses to them is included in Nutuk. In this speech it is unity that Bediuzzaman is most insistent on. He told them that they had three enemies that were destroying them "poverty, ignorance, and Internal conflict", but that they now had to secure "three diamond swords" with which to rout the three enemies and preserve themselves. These were "national unity, human endeavor, and love of the nation".

That is to say, first the Kurds had to achieve unity among themselves, then making over the resulting "mighty force" to the