Agah Efendi
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Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi | |
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Born | 1832 |
Died | 1885 |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
Family | Çapanoğlu family |
Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (1832–1885) was an Ottoman civil servant, writer and newspaper editor who, along with his colleague İbrahim Şinasi, published Tercüman-ı Ahvâl ("Interpreter of Events"), the first private newspaper by Turkish journalists, and introduced postage stamps to the Ottoman Empire.[1]
Biography
Agah Efendi was born in Yozgat and his father's name was Çapanzade Ömer Hulûsi Efendi. He was educated in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople, in the Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahane .
He is also known as being a member of the Young Ottomans, a reformist secret society that enabled the first introduction of a constitutional system to the Empire, resulting in the short-lived First Constitutional Era.
See also
References
- ^ "Agah Efendi". Retrieved 18 August 2016.
External links
- Media related to Agâh Efendi at Wikimedia Commons
- Ottoman Empire / Turkey. The “Sultan” Collection of the Tughra Issues (Part I)
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