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3. Ticaret Mahkemesi Aza Muavini

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title 3. Ticaret Mahkemesi Aza Muavini. Its 1 annual entry fall in 1873/74 (AH 1290). One monthly salary is recorded, 1,425 kuruş.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1290, 1 year with an entry
1873/74
Median monthly salaryfrom 1 recorded salary
1,425 kuruş

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes 3. Ticaret Mahkemesi 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 Nezareti), created on 14 February 1870 when the high court Divan-ı Ahkam-ı Adliyye was turned into a ministry.1 A hierarchy of civil and criminal courts for a minister of justice to oversee only began in the 1860s, when the new nizamiye courts were introduced in the provinces as part of the new local administration.2

History

The first regulation of the ministry, of 21 May 1879, gave it an undersecretary, a corresponding secretary (mektupçu), two councils, directors of referrals, of criminal affairs, of civil affairs, of the records of officials (sicill-i memurin), of sects and of documents (evrak), and an accountant (muhasebeci). Since it also took over the affairs of the non-Muslim communities from the Foreign Ministry, it was named the Ministry of Justice and Sects (Adliye ve Mezahib Nezareti).3 The commercial courts, until then under the Ministry of Trade, came under the ministry on 30 November 1875.1

Notes

  1. Yavuz, Hulusi (1988). Adliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 1, 389-390, paragraph beginning ‘İlk defa, bir yüksek’. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).
  2. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. 178.
  3. Yavuz (1988), ‘Adliye Nezâreti’, paragraph beginning ‘Adliye Nezâreti’nin ilk teşkilât’.

Each statement above ends with the number of its note, which gives the work and the page or paragraph it comes from.

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of 3. Ticaret Mahkemesi Aza Muavini
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Cemalettin Bey1873/7411,425Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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