Individual dossier

Mehmet Emin Efendi

149-127-249Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Mehmet Emin Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1304. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Mekke in AH 1321 (17 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 2 distinct AH years between 1323 and 1324; it begins with Muhabere Memuru in Mekke (500 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); Arabic: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 149-127-249

Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

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Honours, rank and legal records

Decoration wording is unrecorded in the linked text fields.

Sabıka / criminal records

Original wording and raw source values are not adjudicated findings or lifetime verdicts.

Legal wording, values and source locators
  • Original annual indicator value 0
    AH 1323–1324
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 63414, 64778

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1324
    Source lines 38749

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1324
    Source lines 38749

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1324
    Source lines 38749

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1324
    Source lines 38749

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1324
    Source lines 38749

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1324
    Source lines 38749

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1324
    Source lines 38749

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1324
    Source lines 38749

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1323
    Source lines 38748
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1324
    Source lines 38749

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1323
    Source lines 63414
  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1324
    Source lines 64778

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1323
    Source lines 37502
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1324
    Source lines 37501

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1323
    Source lines 37502
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1324
    Source lines 37501

Rank and honour codes

Original values across source assertions, including zero; meanings unverified. No grade, count or award status is inferred.

No honour or rank code assertion is linked in these additional sources.

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Life and career

2 recorded AH years · 2 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1304
  2. AH 1321Birth-year difference: 17 AH years
  3. AH 1323–1324Birth-year difference: 19–20 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

2 of 4

Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1323

Muhabere Memuru · mekke · 500 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1321 in Mekke. The first-salary field is 500 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1321 · 1903 labelRecorded first-work anchorMekke
0250500AH 1323AH 1324AH 1323 · 1905 label: 500 kuruş / month · Muhabere Memuru · mekkeAH 1324 · 1906 label: 500 kuruş / month · Muhabere Memuru · mekke

Monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash payments. Lines connect consecutive AH years only; hollow points mean salary not recorded. Competing entries in one AH year remain separate points, without a unique pay-change line. Gregorian values elsewhere are stored labels.

Places in this record

AH 1321 · 1903 labelRecorded first-work anchorMekke
mekke: Locality linkage; agreedmekke

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • Locality record

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
2 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Baskomiser
Recorded birth year
AH 1304
Religion wording
Musluman
Nationality wording
Turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1321 · 1903 label
Place
Mekke
First-salary field
500 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Recorded language repertoire

2 fields contain historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)
Arabic
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Additional source evidence

Occupation wording, status assertions and original records

Occupation wording and source categories

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Communication and Telegraph

Current job titles in older EDA annual records

  • Muhabere Memuru
All additional source assertions, language notes and original codes

Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. This is separate from the annual data edition; the compact dossier PDF cites both editions.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Original source assertionCommunication and Telegraphseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
Source-year labels: 1323–1324
Source lines 37501, 37502
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMuhabere Memurueda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 38748, 38749
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMuhabere Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 38748, 38749
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1323
Source lines 63414
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1324
Source lines 64778
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 38748
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1324
Source lines 38749
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 38748
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1324
Source lines 38749
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 38748
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1324
Source lines 38749
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323
Source lines 38748
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324
Source lines 38749
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 38748
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1324
Source lines 38749
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 38748
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1324
Source lines 38749
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1323
Source lines 38748
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1324
Source lines 38749
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323
Source lines 38748
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324
Source lines 38749
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1323
Source lines 38748
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1324
Source lines 38749
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1323
Source lines 63414
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1324
Source lines 64778
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323
Source lines 37502
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324
Source lines 37501
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1323
Source lines 37502
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1324
Source lines 37501

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Included · 1 annual entries
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

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All substantive source assertions (82)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1304recovered · dobirth
source lines 35168, 35169
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birthplace
source lines 35168, 35169
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
source lines 35168, 35169
birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 35168, 35169
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 35168, 35169
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 35168, 35169
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 35168, 35169
apprenticeshipYears2recovered · mulazemet
source lines 35168, 35169
qualification1recovered · qualification
source lines 35168, 35169
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 35168, 35169
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 35168, 35169
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 35168, 35169
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 35168, 35169
fatherJobBaskomiserrecovered · fatherjob
source lines 35168, 35169
fatherJobbaskomiserrecovered · father_job
source lines 35168, 35169
firstWorkH1321recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 35168, 35169
firstWorkG1903recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 35168, 35169
firstWorkPlaceMekkerecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 35168, 35169
firstWorkSalary500recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 35168, 35169
birthLatitude41.08488985821407recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 35168, 35169
birthLongitude29.056960217582365recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 35168, 35169
nameMehmet Emin Efendiseptember · İsim
source lines 37501, 37502
birthH1304september · dobirth
source lines 37501, 37502
birthPlacedersaadetseptember · birthplace
source lines 37501, 37502
birthProvincedersaadetseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 37501, 37502
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 37501, 37502
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 37501, 37502
apprenticeshipYears2september · mulazemet
source lines 37501, 37502
apprenticeshipYears2september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 37501, 37502
qualification1september · qualification
source lines 37501, 37502
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 37501, 37502
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 37501, 37502
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 37501, 37502
fatherJobbaskomiserseptember · fatherjob
source lines 37501, 37502
firstWorkH1321september · firstjob_year
source lines 37501, 37502
firstWorkPlacemekkeseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 37501, 37502
firstWorkSalary500september · firstjob_wage
source lines 37501, 37502
birthLatitude41.08488985821407september · lat_birth_place
source lines 37501, 37502
birthLongitude29.056960217582365september · lon_birth_place
source lines 37501, 37502
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 37501, 37502
language:ArabicKitabetseptember · lang_arabic
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic2september · lang_arabic2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 37501, 37502
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 37501, 37502
nameMehmet Emin Efendiolder · İsim
source lines 12966, 28377
birthH1304older · dobirth
source lines 12966, 28377
birthPlacedersaadetolder · birthplace
source lines 12966, 28377
birthProvincedersaadetolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 12966, 28377
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 12966, 28377
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 12966, 28377
apprenticeshipYears2older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 12966, 28377
qualification1older · qualification
source lines 12966, 28377
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 12966, 28377
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 12966, 28377
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 12966, 28377
fatherJobbaskomiserolder · fatherjob
source lines 12966, 28377
firstWorkH1321older · firstjob_year
source lines 12966, 28377
firstWorkPlacemekkeolder · firstjob_place
source lines 12966, 28377
firstWorkSalary500older · firstjob_wage
source lines 12966, 28377
birthLatitude41.08488985821407older · lat_birth_place
source lines 12966, 28377
birthLongitude29.056960217582365older · lon_birth_place
source lines 12966, 28377
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 12966, 28377
language:ArabicKitabetolder · lang_arabic
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic2older · lang_arabic2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 12966, 28377
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 12966, 28377

Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

Cite this record

Fatih Kansoy, Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mehmet Emin Efendi”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 149-127-249. Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis. Annual edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a; additional source edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-1bc0632547694a83/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 149-127-249
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-1bc0632547694a83/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.