Mehmet Nuri Efendi

Mehmet Nuri Efendi was born in Izmir (İzmir) in 1870/71 (AH 1287). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.

Schooling recorded: Darüşşafaka, with 12 years of schooling recorded. The personnel records also mark the telegraph school. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: French, with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1893/94 (AH 1311). The official was then about 23 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 400 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1893/94, the official was about 23 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1893/94, shows Sevk Kalemi in Beyoğlu, with 400 kuruş a month. In 1894/95 the record shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Istanbul, with 400 kuruş a month (before: Sevk Kalemi in Beyoğlu).

The highest salary, 500 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1899/1900 as Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti. 47 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 8 years with a salary the median is 400 kuruş a month, with 2 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 50 kuruş, is seen in 1898/99. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 3.24 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1900/01, when 47 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.

A death is recorded under 1901/02 (AH 1319): the year of the annual list that holds the status word Vefat, not a date of death.