Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (1832 – 1885) was an
Ottoman civil servant
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...
, writer and
newspaper editor
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
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
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the f ...
to the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...
.
Biography
Agah Efendi was born in
Yozgat
Yozgat is a city and the capital district of Yozgat Province in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. According to 2019 census, population of the district is 421,200 of which 106,280 live in the city of Yozgat.
History
The first surveys were ...
and his father's name was Çapanzade Ömer Hulûsi Efendi. He was educated in the Ottoman capital of
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
, in the .
He is also known as being a member of the
Young Ottomans
The Young Ottomans () were a secret society established in 1865 by a group of Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish people, Turkish intellectuals who were dissatisfied with the Tanzimat reforms in the Ottoman Empire, which they believed did not go far ...
, 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
*
History of Middle Eastern newspapers
The history of Middle Eastern newspaper publishing goes back to the 19th century. The Nahda was an important period for the development of newspaper publishing in the Middle East. During this period, a shift from government and missionary publish ...
References
External links
*https://www.davidfeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/179_Turkey_AP_Web.pdf
19th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
1832 births
1885 deaths
Young Turks
Civil servants from the Ottoman Empire
People from Yozgat
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