 In the summer of 1897, Zyhdi Ohri returns to his homeland.After returning from Istanbul, his nationalist ideologies began to emerge when, together with other prominent Albanian nationalists, such as Hamdi Ohri and Murad Sojliu, began organizing the peoples of the Ohrid, Strugë, and Velešta regions by forming cheta also preventing conscription by the Ottoman army.As an Albanian nationalist, he participated in the League of Peja (1899-1900).