Ministry of Post and Telegraph (Ottoman Empire)
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| Posta ve Telgraf Nezâreti | |
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| Formed | 1871 1911 |
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| Dissolved | 4 November 1922 |
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| Headquarters | Sirkeci, Istanbul 41°00′52″N 28°58′27″E / 41.014568°N 28.974140°E |
The Ministry of Post and Telegraph (Turkish: Posta ve Telgraf Nazırlığı) was the ministry responsible for administering postal and telegraph services in the late Ottoman Empire. The headquarters of the organization was located in Sirkeci, Istanbul at the Grand Post Office.
Establishment
[edit]Background
[edit]The origin of the ministry dates back to the establishment of the Ministry of Post (Posta Nezâreti) on 23 October 1840. In 1855, a Ministry of Telegraph (Telgraf Nezâreti) was established separately from this ministry. With the unification of these two ministries in 1871, the Ministry of Post and Telegraph was established. Non-Muslim administrators were generally assigned to these ministries.
Headquarters
[edit]The ministry's new permanent headquarters, the Grand Post Office, was designed by architect Vedat Tek, with construction beginning in 1905 and ending in 1909.
Temporary dissolvement and re-establishment
[edit]Following the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era in 1908, the General Directorate of Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi) was established in place of the institution and was connected to the Ministry of Finance (Maliye Nezâreti) In 1911, it was transformed into a ministry again, and Talaat Pasha was appointed as the director. It continued to exist until the abolition of the sultanate on 1 November 1922.
List of ministers
[edit]The following is a list of ministers who served as director of the ministry.[1]
- Mustafa Sâmi Efendi (1840)
- Ahmed Şükrü Bey (1840–1842)
- Hüseyin Hasip Bey (1842–1852)
- İsmail Paşa (1852–1857)
- Billuri Mehmed Efendi (1855–1860)
- Davud Efendi (1860–1861)
- Rıza Yusuf Paşa (1861)
- Franko Efendi (1861)
- Agah Efendi (1861–1865)
- Kamil Bey (1862)
- Kadri Paşa (1865–1866)
- Abdullah Feyzi Bey (1868–1871)
- Yaver Paşa (1868–1871)
- Ahmed Şükrü Bey (1871–1872)
- İzzet Efendi (1876–1880)
- İbrahim Haydar Efendi (1879–1880)
- İzzet Efendi (1880–1888)
- Hasan Ali Efendi (May 1888 – November 1895)
- Hüseyin Hasib Bey (November 1895 – August 1908)
- Mehmed Atâ Bey (August 1908)
- Ali Galib Bey (August 1908 – February 1909)
- Mustafa Fuad Bey (March–July 1909)
- M. Sterpen (1909–1911)
- Agop İstanbulyan Efendi (June–October 1911)
- İbrahim Selim Susa Efendi (October 1911 – February 1912)
- Mehmed Talat Paşa (February 1912)
- Ziya Paşa (February–March 1912)
- Hüseyin Sabri Bey (March–October 1912)
- Abdurrahman Vefik Sayın (1912)
- Musurus-Gikis Bey (October 1912 – June 1913)
- Oskan Mardikyan (June 1913 – November 1914)
- Ahmet Şükrü Bey (1914 – September 1917)
- Hüseyin Haşim Bey (September 1917 – October 1918)
- Rıza Tevfik Bey (1918)
- Abdurrahman Şeref Bey (October–December 1918)
- Yusuf Franko Paşa (1918–1919)
- İbrahim Edhem Bey (February–March 1919)
- Refik Halit Bey (1919)
- Mehmed Ali Bey (March–April 1919)
- Sırrı Bey (1920)
- Refet Bey (1920)
- Orhan Şemsettin Bey (1920–1922)
- Mehmet Sabri Bey (1920–1922)
See also
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Citations
[edit]- ^ "Geçmişten Günümüze Genel Müdürlerimiz" [Our General Managers from Past to Present] (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2011.