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Mehmet Tevfik Efendi (H. 1288)

Complete career chronology

Life and career

Appointments and amounts remain attached to their sources. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Entries in one year can describe different appointments or rates; gaps remain open.

  1. 1907/08 (AH 1325)Bidayet Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi BaşkanıXanthi (İskeçe) · 1,200 kuruş
  2. 1910/11 (AH 1328)Polis MüdürüKonya · 2,000 kuruş
    1. Polis Müdürü

      Konya · Calculated age 40 · 2,000 kuruş

      [1]

  3. Undated entriesPolis merkezi memuru · 1,500 kuruş
    1. Polis merkezi memuru

      · 1,500 kuruş

      [1]

Recorded pay

Kuruş · dated amounts. Green: post entries. Purple: retirement. Grey: other career status.

01,0002,0001907/08AH 13251910/11AH 13281907/08 (AH 1325) · Bidayet Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi Başkanı · Xanthi (İskeçe) · age 37 · 1,200 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328) · Polis Müdürü · Konya · age 40 · 2,000 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Elbistan [source]
Birth province
Halep [source]
Birth year
1871/72 (AH 1288) [source]
Archive references
BOA, DH. SAİD. d. 146/267 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
okur yazar ve tekellüm [source]
Persian
Aşina [source]
Turkish
okur yazar ve tekellüm [source]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Rüştiye ve hukuk şahadetnameleri; Arapça ilimler icazeti [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Elbistan sıbyan ve rüştiye mektepleri; Mekteb-i Hukuk-ı Şahane [source]
Education level equivalent
14 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
37 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
İskeçe [source]
First-salary field
1200 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1907/08 (AH 1325) [source]

Documentary details and source passages

These accounts retain their own wording and dates. Passages can include family, education, languages, honours and judicial narratives beyond the summary fields. A quotation is evidence from its named account; it does not settle differences between sources.

Documentary sources

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Elbistanlı memurlar

    ŞEYMA BÜLBÜL · 2025 · Pages 70

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