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Mehmet Zikri Efendi

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. 1900/01 (AH 1318)Postahane dağıtıcısıIstanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş
  2. 1901/02 (AH 1319)Postahane dağıtıcısıIstanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Postahane dağıtıcısı

      Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  3. 1902/03 (AH 1320)Postahane dağıtıcısıIstanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Postahane dağıtıcısı

      Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  4. 1903/04 (AH 1321)Postahane dağıtıcısıIstanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Postahane dağıtıcısı

      Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  5. 1904/05 (AH 1322)Postahane dağıtıcısıIstanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Postahane dağıtıcısı

      Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  6. 1905/06 (AH 1323)Postahane dağıtıcısıIstanbul (Dersaadet) · 150; 200 kuruş

    1. Postahane dağıtıcısı

      Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  7. 1906/07 (AH 1324)Postahane dağıtıcısı · 2 career entriesIstanbul (Dersaadet) · Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi · 200; 400 kuruş

    1. Postahane dağıtıcısı

      Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 200 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Kartpostal Memuru

      Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi · 400 kuruş

      [1]

Recorded pay

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

02004001900/01AH 13181906/07AH 13241900/01 (AH 1318) · Postahane dağıtıcısı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319) · Postahane dağıtıcısı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1902/03 (AH 1320) · Postahane dağıtıcısı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1903/04 (AH 1321) · Postahane dağıtıcısı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1904/05 (AH 1322) · Postahane dağıtıcısı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1905/06 (AH 1323) · Postahane dağıtıcısı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1905/06 (AH 1323) · Postahane dağıtıcısı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 200 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324) · Postahane dağıtıcısı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 200 kuruş · Source-bounded service1906/07 (AH 1324) · Kartpostal Memuru · Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi · 400 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Şebinkarahisar [source]Karahisar-ı Şarki [1]
Father’s occupation
Çiftçi [source]
Archive references
BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 149/403 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan Mektebi; Beyazıt Rüşdiyesi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
İstanbul [source]
First-salary field
150 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
1900/01 (AH 1318) [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. Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)

    AHMET YADİ · 2014 · Pages 121, 122

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