Official
MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Beirut (Beyrut) in 1887/88 (AH 1305). On record 1906 to 1909, 3 annual entries.
Archive reference 0156_0177; 351
Life#
Born in Beirut (Beyrut) in 1887/88 (AH 1305) into the Muslim (Müslüman) community, MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ was the child of a director (müdür). MEHMET ŞAKİR had seven years of schooling, at a middle school (Rüşdiye Mektebi), and wrote French as well as Turkish.
Work began in Damascus (Şam) in 1905/06, at about 17, with one unpaid year as a mülazım (apprentice) before a first salary of 250 kuruş. The first annual entry, for 1906/07, places MEHMET ŞAKİR in Damascus as an official for foreign communications (Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti). The last post was in Gaza (Gazze) in 1908/09, with a rise to communications official (Muhabere Memuru).
Pay rose from 250 kuruş a month in 1906/07 to a peak of 300 in 1908/09, as Muhabere Memuru in Gaza, when 36 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, three years of salary come to 9,600 kuruş, 72 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1908/09.
Places in order of time#
Each number is a stop: the birthplace, the place of first work, then every place of the annual entries in turn. The year beside an arrow is the first entry at the new place.
Born 1887/88 (AH 1305)
First work 1905/06 (AH 1323); 1906 to 1908 (AH 1324 to 1325)
Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
250 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years
Career and salary#
Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906/07 | 250 | 450 | 350 | 15% |
| 1907/08 | 250 | 300 | 300 | 28% |
| 1908/09 | 300 | 350 | 250 | 36% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Point at a year for its salary, title, place and the median of all officials paid that year. Choose a row of the table to mark its years in the charts and its stop on the map.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1905/06AH 1323 | First work | Damascus (Şam) | 250first-salary field |
| 1906 to 1908AH 1324 to 1325 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Damascus (Şam) | 250 |
| 1908/09AH 1326 | Muhabere Memuru | Gaza (Gazze) | 300 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1887/88 (AH 1305)
- Birthplace
- Beirut (Beyrut)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- mudur
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 1 year
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1905/06 (AH 1323)
- Place
- Damascus (Şam)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 250
Recorded with#
Officials who share a place, a job title, a school, a birthplace or the year of the first annual entry. Ranks compare the highest monthly salary of each official.
Same place, same years
Of the 17 officials with entries in Damascus (Şam) in the same years, MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ had the 9th highest salary.
- Mehmet Hayri Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Mehmet Hüsnü Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 300 kuruş
- Mehmet Rüştü Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 300 kuruş
- Ömer Şevki Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 300 kuruş
- Devidras Avram Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 800 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 103 officials with the title Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in the same years, MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ had the 59th highest salary.
- Mehmet Hayri Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,700 kuruş
- Taşçıyan Markar Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,300 kuruş
- Andon İzekiyan Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Ali Nazmi Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 800 kuruş
- Muharrem Sıtkı Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 540 kuruş
All 605 officials with the title Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
Same school
Of the 3,206 officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi among their schools, 3,200 have a recorded salary; MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ had the 2,211th highest salary of them.
- Abdülkadir Selahaddin Efendiborn 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 200 kuruş
- Abdullah Fehmi Efendiborn 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 400 kuruş
- ABDULLAH LÜTFÜ EFENDİborn 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 200 kuruş
- Ahmet Cemal Efendiborn 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 100 kuruş
- AHMET CEMiL EFEndiborn 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 220 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 51 officials born in Beirut (Beyrut), MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ had the 39th highest salary.
- Mehmet Bekir Efendiborn 1885/86 (AH 1303); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Mehmet Süleyman Efendiborn 1885/86 (AH 1303); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Tevfik Şahin Efendiborn 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Abdülhafız Efendiborn 1883/84 (AH 1301); highest salary 300 kuruş
- İbrahim Efendiborn 1883/84 (AH 1301); highest salary 250 kuruş
The page of Beirut (Beyrut), with the 51 officials born there
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 161 officials whose first annual entry is for 1906/07 (AH 1324), MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ had the 55th highest salary.
- Ömer Şevki Efendifirst entry in Damascus (Şam); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Hafız Yusuf Ziyaeddin Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Hasan Tahsin Efendifirst entry in Tripoli (Trablusgarp); highest salary 200 kuruş
- Hüseyin Naker Efendifirst entry in Erzurum; highest salary 250 kuruş
- İsmail Hakkı Efendifirst entry in Kastamonu; highest salary 300 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (3)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906/07AH 1324 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Damascus (Şam) | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0177; 351 |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Damascus (Şam) | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0177; 351 |
| 1908/09AH 1326 | Muhabere Memuru | Gaza (Gazze) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0177; 351 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (15)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1305 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | beyrut | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | beyrut | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | mudur | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Rusdiye Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 7 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 1 used on this page | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 other value | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1323 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1905 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | sam | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 250 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.
Subjects
- MEHMET ŞAKİR EFENDİ
- Post of official for foreign communications (Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti)
- Damascus (Şam)
- Beirut (Beyrut)
- Rüşdiye school (Rüşdiye Mektebi)
- Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Biography of an Ottoman official (Osmanlı memurunun biyografisi)
- Career and pay (memuriyet ve maaş)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)