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2. Ticaret Mahkeme Aza Muavini

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title 2. Ticaret Mahkeme Aza Muavini. Its 5 annual entries run from 1874 to 1878 (AH 1291 to 1295). The median of the 5 recorded monthly salaries is 1,425 kuruş, against 560 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1291 to 1295, 5 years with an entry
1874 to 1878
Median monthly salaryfrom 5 recorded salaries
1,425 kuruş

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes 2. Ticaret Mahkeme Aza Muavini by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Officials of the courts and offices of the Ministry of Justice (Adliye), created on 14 February 1870 from the court Divan-ı Ahkam-ı Adliye. The new courts (nizamiye) were set up in the provinces from the 1860s.

History

The regulation of 21 May 1879 organised the ministry as the Ministry of Justice and Sects (Adliye ve Mezahib Nezareti), with an undersecretary, a corresponding secretary, directors for criminal and civil affairs, for the records of officials and for documents, and an accountant. The commercial courts came under the ministry in 1875.

Sources

  1. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 178. Used for: summary.
  2. Yavuz, Hulusi (1988). Adliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 1, 389-390. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 389. Used for: summary, history.

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of 2. Ticaret Mahkeme Aza Muavini
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Cemalettin Bey1874 to 187851,425Istanbul (Dersaadet)

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.

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