Ku ya 23 Mutarama 1846, ibintu byabaye mu mateka byabereye muri Tuniziya: ubucakara bwakuweho ku mugaragaro n’itegeko rya Ahmed Bey. Iki kimenyetso cyerekezo cyerekana Tuniziya igihugu cyambere mubihugu byabarabu n’abayisilamu bashyigikiye igitekerezo cyo gukuraho. Ahmed Bey, yayobowe n’ibitekerezo byubuntu mugihe cye, yafashe iki cyemezo na mbere yubufaransa.
Icyo gihe Tuniziya yari ahantu hateranira ubwenge, aho ibitekerezo bishya byakwirakwijwe biyobowe na Ahmed Bey.
Ivanwaho ry’ubucakara naryo ryari rifite ishingiro ry’idini, rishyigikiwe na fatwa ya Sheikhs Ibrahim Riahi na Bayrem de la Zitouna. Kwimuka kwinjije imbata 167.000 muri societe ya Tuniziya, nubwo uturere tumwe na tumwe twarwanyije impinduka.
Ibimenyetso bya Ahmed Bey bishushanya ibitekerezo bifunguye kandi bigezweho bya Leta, kandi byaranze intangiriro y’impinduka z’imibereho muri Tuniziya kandi bigira uruhare mu cyerekezo cy’igihugu imbere y’impinduka zizaza, cyane cyane abashinzwe umutekano mu Bufaransa mu 1881. Abahoze ari imbata icyo gihe bungukiwe. uburenganzira bw’ubukungu n’umuryango tubikesha iteka rya gikoloni mu 1890, ryagura ingaruka zivugurura ryatangijwe na Ahmed Bey. Uyu munsi, icyapa cyo kwibuka ku mva ya Thomas Reade kiributsa iki gihe cyamateka muri Tuniziya.
