Job title
Meclis Riyaseti
Group of job titles: Management
3 officials held the job title Meclis Riyaseti. Its 10 annual entries run from 1871 to 1887 (AH 1288 to 1304). The median of the 10 recorded monthly salaries is 4,445 kuruş, against 532.5 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Istanbul, with 2.
- Officials
- 3
- Years on recordAH 1288 to 1304, 6 years with an entry
- 1871 to 1887
- Median monthly salaryfrom 10 recorded salaries
- 4,445 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 2
Profile of the group: Management
No source read describes Meclis Riyaseti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Directors of the offices and departments of the service. Under the regulation of November 1876 the administration of posts and telegraphs had a director general, a chief director (başmüdür) for each of its two departments, principal directors and inspectors in the provinces, directors (müdür) of the districts, and clerks in the smaller places, each answering to the one above.
Duties
- run an office of the service and direct its clerks
- in a telegraph office, keep the daily duty turns of the clerks, see that the apparatus is clean and working, and send a fault the office cannot repair to the mechanics (makineci) of the province or of Istanbul
- answer for the orderly and safe working of the office
Rank and pay
A schedule set by the centre paid telegraph directors of the first, second and third grade in the sancaks 1,200, 800 and 600 kuruş a month.
Sources
- Güneş, Mahir Melih (2026). Anadolu'da Telgrafın Toplumsal Tarihi (1856-1908). Doctoral thesis, Hacettepe University. Online copy (read 11 October 2026).Pages or part: 115, 119. Used for: duties.
- Okan, Ayşegül (2003). The Ottoman postal and telegraph services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. MA thesis, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.Pages or part: 49. Used for: summary.
- The school and the office: training, entry and pay in the Ottoman Post and Telegraph service, 1870-1905. Working paper, 2026 (the paper behind this collection; its Section II reports Akyıldız 2024, Ata 2022 and Ayhan and Maviş 1994).Pages or part: Section II. Used for: rank and pay.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 2 | 9 | 1871 to 1876 |
| Trabzon | Trabzon province | 1 | 1 | 1886/87 |
Ottoman officials recorded
3 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehmet Tevfik Bey | 1871 to 1876 | 5 | 3,750 to 4,500 | Cairo (Kahire) |
| Hasan Ali Efendi | 1872 to 1876 | 4 | 3,250 to 5,500 | Trabzon |
| İbrahim Sarim Bey | 1886/87 | 1 | 2,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
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
- Meclis Riyaseti
- 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)