MEHMET ZEKİ EFENDİ
MEHMET ZEKİ EFENDİ was born in Birecik in AH 1306. Recorded schooling includes 12 years at darussafaka. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1326 (20 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1326 with muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti in Dersaadet (150 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); French: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1306
- AH 1326Birth-year difference: 20 AH years
- AH 1326Birth-year difference: 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.
Assigned salary in the annual career
Monthly kuruş · AHmuhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti · dersaadet · 150 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1326 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 150 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
AH 1326
One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.
Places in this record
◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations
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.
Preparation
- School / programme
- darussafaka
- Schooling duration
- 12 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 0 source-recorded years
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- ciftci
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1306
- 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.
First-work and entry-pay fields
- First-work source date
- AH 1326
- Place
- istanbul
- First-salary field
- 150 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)
- French
- 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.
Further biographical evidence
Source wording and status assertions
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)
- FL Communication and Telegraph
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes
These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.
Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-5e2ba3e19fa6918b. This is separate from the annual data edition and annual-record PDF.
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| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | FL Communication and Telegraph | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 28417 Recorded source-year values: 1326 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 29127 Recorded source-year values: 1326 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 29127 Recorded source-year values: 1326 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1326 · AH source lines 66116 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1326 · AH source lines 29127 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1326 · AH source lines 29127 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1326 · AH source lines 29127 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1326 · AH source lines 29127 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1326 · AH source lines 66116 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1326 · AH source lines 28417 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1326 · AH source lines 28417 |
Read the complete annual source table
Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.
| Source year | Gregorian label | Title | Locality wording | Monthly kuruş | Source line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not recorded | muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti | dersaadet | 150 | recovered line 26519 |
- AH 1326
muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti
150 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 26519
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
- Outside the paper sample
- Other archival labels
- No different label recorded
- Geography
- Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence
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.
| Field | Source alternatives | Display rule |
|---|---|---|
| telegraphSchool | 0 recovered · telgraf · source lines 26519 0 september · telegraph_school · source lines 28417 1 older · telgraph_school · source lines 4984 | All stored assertions retained. Names prefer September, then older; supplemental names fill only missing names. Other preferred attributes use recovered, then September, then older, with modal nonblank value and source-order tie break. This does not adjudicate historical truth or changes in coding. |
All substantive source assertions (77)
| Field | Original stored value | Source field and lines |
|---|---|---|
| birthH | 1306 | recovered · dobirth source lines 26519 |
| birthPlace | birecik | recovered · birth_place source lines 26519 |
| birthProvince | halep | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 26519 |
| school | darussafaka | recovered · school_type source lines 26519 |
| schoolingYears | 12 | recovered · school_year source lines 26519 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 0 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 26519 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 26519 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 26519 |
| religion | musluman | recovered · religion source lines 26519 |
| nationality | turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 26519 |
| fatherJob | ciftci | recovered · father_job source lines 26519 |
| firstWorkH | 1326 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 26519 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 26519 |
| firstWorkSalary | 150 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 26519 |
| birthLatitude | 37.02473200000002 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 26519 |
| birthLongitude | 37.97803399999999 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 26519 |
| name | MEHMET ZEKİ EFENDİ | september · İsim source lines 28417 |
| birthH | 1306 | september · dobirth source lines 28417 |
| birthPlace | birecik | september · birthplace source lines 28417 |
| birthProvince | halep | september · birth_vilayet source lines 28417 |
| school | darussafaka | september · school_type source lines 28417 |
| schoolingYears | 12 | september · education_year source lines 28417 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 0 | september · mulazemet source lines 28417 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 0 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 28417 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 28417 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 28417 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 28417 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 28417 |
| fatherJob | ciftci | september · fatherjob source lines 28417 |
| firstWorkH | 1326 | september · firstjob_year source lines 28417 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | september · firstjob_place source lines 28417 |
| firstWorkSalary | 150 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 28417 |
| birthLatitude | 37.02473200000002 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 28417 |
| birthLongitude | 37.97803399999999 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 28417 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 28417 |
| language:French | Kitabet | september · lang_french source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | september · lang_french2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 28417 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 28417 |
| name | MEHMET ZEKİ EFENDİ | older · İsim source lines 4984 |
| birthH | 1306 | older · dobirth source lines 4984 |
| birthPlace | birecik | older · birthplace source lines 4984 |
| birthProvince | halep | older · birth_vilayet source lines 4984 |
| school | darussafaka | older · school_type source lines 4984 |
| schoolingYears | 12 | older · education_year source lines 4984 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 0 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 4984 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 4984 |
| telegraphSchool | 1 | older · telgraph_school source lines 4984 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 4984 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 4984 |
| fatherJob | ciftci | older · fatherjob source lines 4984 |
| firstWorkH | 1326 | older · firstjob_year source lines 4984 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | older · firstjob_place source lines 4984 |
| firstWorkSalary | 150 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 4984 |
| birthLatitude | 37.02473200000002 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 4984 |
| birthLongitude | 37.97803399999999 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 4984 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 4984 |
| language:French | Kitabet | older · lang_french source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | older · lang_french2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 4984 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 4984 |
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
Ottoman Bureaucracy, “MEHMET ZEKİ EFENDİ”, archival reference 0156_173; 343, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-971c07a35b7ca873/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-971c07a35b7ca873/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.