The Empire, that had experienced the intervention of external powers towards the national subjects living within its geographical borders during the period reigned by the Abdul Hamid II, had to make reforms. The Empire which had lost its lands and people in the Rumelia and the Eastern Anatolia started to search for a remedy to prevent the same from happening again in the South Eastern Anatolian territories. The specially authorized commissioners and bureaucrats who were sent to the region initiated the reforms after evaluating the pleadings. Unlike the previous sultans, Abdul Hamid II encouraged the writing of pleadings and occasionally entrusted this task to certain persons he relied upon. He addressed many political and social problems considering the solutions received. The Sultan asked Ahmed Aziz Pasha, who was assigned a duty to solve the Kurdish and the Armenian question incited by the Russians and the British, to write a pleading. Ahmed Aziz Pasha pointed out that the people living in this region had started to lose their trust in the justice and the empire as a result of the strict political system instituted by his predecessor Abidin Pasha. Ahmed Aziz Pasha listed his recommendations to solve the problems regarding agriculture, economy, administration, public works and education as a package consisting of 14 articles in a pleading.