MUHAMMED SAKİN EFENDİ
Born 1879/80 (AH 1297) · Dated entries 1888 to 1906 (AH 1306 to 1323)
Languages Arabic, French, Persian, Turkish
Archival reference DH_SAİD,00065_00241
The career, year by year
Read every yearEach mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.
The life
MUHAMMED SAKİN EFENDİ was born in 1879/80 (AH 1297). The father’s occupation was Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Diyarbekir Rüşdiyesi. The language repertoire included Arabic, French, Persian and Turkish. [1]
Service began in Cizre in 1888/89 (AH 1306). Dated career entries span 1888/89 (AH 1306) to 1905/06 (AH 1323) across 13 AH years, from Cizre to Sevakin telgraf ve posta merkezi, beginning with telgraf mülazımı and ending with entries for muhaberat-ı ecnebiyye başmemuru. More than one post or place appears in 1 of those years. Place names include Cizre, Diyarbekir telgraf ve posta merkezi and Sevakin telgraf ve posta merkezi. [1]
Monthly pay went from 270 kuruş in 1894/95 (AH 1312) to 2,000 kuruş in 1905/06 (AH 1323); the highest recorded monthly rate is 2,000 kuruş in 1905/06 (AH 1323). [1]
Life and career
Follow 6 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.
Stage 1 of 6 · Place not recorded
How to read this map
Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.
Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.
3 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.
1 1879/80 (AH 1297)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
Birth
2 First work as recorded
Calculated age 9
telgraf mülazımı
Calculated age 9
3 1889/90 (AH 1307) · 5 recorded years
Cizre
AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.
telgraf mülazımı
Calculated age 10
Continuing service as described
telgraf mülazımı
Calculated age 14
Continuing service as described
4 1894/95 (AH 1312)
Cizre / Diyarbekir telgraf ve posta merkezi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir telgraf ve posta merkezi
telgraf mülazımı
Calculated age 15
Continuing service as described
Diyarbekir telgraf ve posta merkezi
muhaberat-ı ecnebiyye memuru
270 kuruşCalculated age 15
5 1895/96 (AH 1313) · 5 recorded years
Diyarbekir telgraf ve posta merkezi
AH entries: 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir telgraf ve posta merkezi
muhaberat-ı ecnebiyye memuru
270 kuruşCalculated age 16
Continuing service as described
istifa (İnfisal)
Calculated age 20
6 1905/06 (AH 1323)
Sevakin telgraf ve posta merkezi
Not yet located on the map: Sevakin telgraf ve posta merkezi
muhaberat-ı ecnebiyye başmemuru
2,000 kuruşCalculated age 26
1 entry without a resolved year
These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.
- telgraf muhabere memuru (Eastern Telegraph Kumpanyası) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.
Pay over time
Pay in its time
Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.
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How the comparison is calculated
One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.
Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.
View the yearly values
| AH year | Official rate | Sample median | Sample p10 to p90 | Paid less | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894/95 (AH 1312) | 270 | 400 | 140 to 1,500 | 27.5% | 2004 |
| 1895/96 (AH 1313) | 300 | 400 | 140 to 1,500 | 27.1% | 1981 |
| 1896/97 (AH 1314) | 300 | 450 | 150 to 1,575 | 26.4% | 2119 |
| 1897/98 (AH 1315) | 300 | 400 | 140 to 1,425 | 28.1% | 1891 |
| 1898/99 (AH 1316) | 350 | 400 | 144 to 1,400 | 39.0% | 1844 |
| 1899/1900 (AH 1317) | 350 | 400 | 140 to 1,440 | 39.1% | 1821 |
| 1905/06 (AH 1323) | 2,000 | 430 | 125 to 1,500 | 93.0% | 1423 |
Career patterns and pay
Recorded pay over the career
Kuruş · dated amountsSelect an amount for its date, post, place and age.
● Post entry● Retirement● Other status
Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.
Where the career is recorded
Distinct AH years with career entriesGaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.
Amounts recorded by place
Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate- Diyarbekir telgraf ve posta merkezi270 to 350
- Sevakin telgraf ve posta merkezi2,000
Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.
Titles across the recorded years
Distinct AH years with each recorded titleThe most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.
Related officials in the salary reference
- Cizre6 other officialsİsmail Hakkı Efendi 4 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- 1888/89 (AH 1306)172 other officialsMehmed Necmettin Efendi first entry in Cizre; highest salary 2,500 kuruş
Education and personal record
All personal fields and their sources
Sources and evidence
- Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları
ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 69, 70
76 DH_SAİD,00065_00241; DH_SAİD,00065_00241
Read the original source accounts · 19 source entries →
The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.
Yearly entries and their source passages · 13 dated AH years
Annual salary study and register readings
The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.