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Job title

Sulh Mahkemesi Azasi

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

3 officials held the job title Sulh Mahkemesi Azasi. Its 4 annual entries run from 1870 to 1881 (AH 1287 to 1298). The median of the 4 recorded monthly salaries is 2,000 kuruş, against 571.25 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 3 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Istanbul, with 1.

Officials
3
Years on recordAH 1287 to 1298, 4 years with an entry
1870 to 1881
Median monthly salaryfrom 4 recorded salaries
2,000 kuruş
Places with officials
3

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Sulh Mahkemesi 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

  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.

Where the job was held

All years
3 places with officials on record, 3 of them with a position on the map. A larger dot means more officials.
Seat of a province (vilayet) Other place
BeykozBeyoğluIstanbul (Dersaadet)1 official

All 3 places, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Beykoz1
Beyoğlu1
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1

Places

Places of Sulh Mahkemesi Azasi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province121876 to 1878
BeykozIstanbul (Dersaadet) province111880/81
BeyoğluIstanbul (Dersaadet) province111870/71

Ottoman officials recorded

3 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Sulh Mahkemesi Azasi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Methi Efendi (1876 to 187822,000Kastamonu
Koceoglu Kirkor Efendi1870/7111,250Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Mazhar Efendi1880/8112,000Şanlıurfa (Urfa)

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.

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