Mehmet Bey's firman was the decree of

Mehmet I of Karaman Shams al-Dīn Meḥmed I Beg (; died 20 June 1277 or 30 May 1279) was Beg of the Ḳarāmān from 1263 until his death. Ḳarāmān was a Turkish principality in Anatolia in the 13th century. His father was Karaman Bey. Early life Meḥmed was ...

(Karamanoğlu Mehmet), a vizier of Suljuks, declaring that the official language of Seljuks was

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. Mehmet Beg or Mehmet Bey of

Karaman Karaman is a city in south central Turkey, located in Central Anatolia, north of the Taurus Mountains, about south of Konya. It is the seat of Karaman Province and Karaman District.Karamanids The Karamanids ( or ), also known as the Emirate of Karaman and Beylik of Karaman (), was a Turkish people, Turkish Anatolian beyliks, Anatolian beylik (principality) of Salur tribe origin, descended from Oghuz Turks, centered in South-Centra ...

. His father was

Karaman Bey Karim al-Dīn Ḳarāmān Beg was a Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman chieftain who ruled the Karamanids in the 13th century. Ḳarāmān Beg's emergence coincides with the defeat of the Sultanate of Rum by the Mongol Empire in 1256 and the tension b ...

Mehmet Fuat Köprülü Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (December 5, 1890 – June 28, 1966), also known as Köprülüzade Mehmed Fuad, was a highly influential Turkish sociologist, Turkologist, scholar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of the Rep ...

suggested that the government officials, who had been educated under the influence of the

Persian culture The culture of Iran () or culture of PersiaYarshater, Ehsa, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) is one of the oldest and among the most influential in the world. Iran (Persia) is widely regarded as one of the cradles of civilization.

, had used the

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in their state's official business and the strong compulsion of using Persian as

official language An official language is defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as, "the language or one of the languages that is accepted by a country's government, is taught in schools, used in the courts of law, etc." Depending on the decree, establishmen ...

had lasted until a Karamanid lord, Mehmed Bey, invaded

Konya Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...

. Agop Dilaçar, who is known for his works on the

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, claimed that Mehmed Bey may have declared Turkish the official language of the state.Agop Dilaçar, ''Devlet Dili Olarak Türkçe'', Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, 1962, p. 14. Taqī Āzādarmakī, T. Azadarmaki, ''Contact Des Langues Dans L'Espace Arabo - Turco - Persan I: Arabo - Turco - Persan I'', Peeters Publishers, 2005,
p. 90.
According to Dilaçar, in his

firman A firman (; ), at the constitutional level, was a royal mandate or decree issued by a sovereign in an Islamic state. During various periods such firmans were collected and applied as traditional bodies of law. The English word ''firman'' co ...

dated 13 May (15 May ?) 1277, Mehmed Bey ordered that: After his failed rebellion in Ankara, Mehmed Bey died in the fighting against Seljuq-Mongol troops.

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