 İttihad was unable to last as Swiss authorities of the time undertook strict measures against Albanian opponents of the Ottoman sultan.In 1903, Dervish Hima published the fortnightly periodical "L’Albanie" in Geneva, which he continued as a monthly from 1905 to 1906 in Brussels.Hima was a follower of Ibrahim Temo and was instructed by him to write in Young Turk journals with the aim of achieving reconciliation between the Young Turks and Albanian opponents of the sultan.