Sanjak of Alexandretta
Al-Sa'dun opposed Turkish claims over the Sanjak of Alexandretta and sought to campaign for the region to remain part of Syria. He moved to Aleppo where he lived in hiding from the authorities in the 1930s. on his way to the Sanjak of Alexandretta, he was arrested by the French authorities. He was subsequently cleared of the charges against him, but he was placed under house arrest. His house arrest ended in 1940, and Syria gained its independence in 1946. In 1950, al-Sa'dun completed his memoirs of his experiences in the Hananu Revolt. Al-Sa'dun lived the remainder of his life in Salqin, a Syrian town near the Turkish border with the former Sanjak of Alexandretta. He died in 1980.