Job title
Mahkeme Azasi
Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs
4 officials held the job title Mahkeme Azasi. Its 9 annual entries run from 1878 to 1907 (AH 1295 to 1324). The median of the 9 recorded monthly salaries is 1,200 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 4 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Beyoğlu, with 1.
- Officials
- 4
- Years on recordAH 1295 to 1324, 9 years with an entry
- 1878 to 1907
- Median monthly salaryfrom 9 recorded salaries
- 1,200 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 4
Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs
No source read describes Mahkeme Azasi 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
- 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.
- 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.
Where the job was held
| Place | Officials | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| Beyoğlu | 1 | |
| Ioannina (Yanya) | 1 | |
| Izmir (İzmir) | 1 | |
| Van | 1 |
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beyoğlu | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 5 | 1881 to 1886 |
| Ioannina (Yanya) | Ioannina (Yanya) province | 1 | 1 | 1906/07 |
| Izmir (İzmir) | Aydın province | 1 | 1 | 1878/79 |
| Van | Van province | 1 | 1 | 1890/91 |
Ottoman officials recorded
4 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emrullah Efendi | 1881 to 1886 | 5 | 1,200 | Biga |
| Agop Efendi | 1878 to 1879 | 2 | 1,100 to 1,500 | Izmir (İzmir) |
| Mehmet Ali Efendi | 1906/07 | 1 | 1,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Mehmet Servet Efendi | 1890/91 | 1 | 750 | Van |
Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Mahkeme Azasi
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)