This catalogue consists in the private collection of Ali Fuat Türkgeldi, who worked at different state offices such as Interior Chief Secretary of Ministry of Interior the Councillor of Ministry of Interior and the Imperial Council Directory Office of Finance and Public Works (Şura-yı Devlet Maliye ve Nafia Dairesi Başkanlığı) since 1907. The fonds includes 3.167 documents, 19 notebooks, 60 paintings and an album. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this collection are: 1080-1380.
This subseries includes documents referring to subjects such as bandits, gangs and murderers; events of wounding, robbery and rape; criminal statistics tables and events’ reports; activities of the communities and the follow-up of them; the control of the occupying forces and the follow-up of these occupying forces’ treatments of the public and mistreatments of the janissaries and state officials; the procedure about the janissary forces (appointments of commanders, etc.); activities of the National Forces (Kuva-yı Milliye); activities of the enemy navies; and Greeks’ and Armenians’ violations and rape of Muslim people in various parts of Anatolia. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1333-1338.
The Documentary Office of the Sublime Porte (Bab-ı Ali Evrak Odası) is the institution that arranged the flow of documents in the Sublime Porte (Bab-ı Ali) after the Tanzimat. Accordingly, any document that was dealt with by the Sublime Porte is filed into this fonds.
This series includes documents related to judicial matters such as fines given to officials who overtax people; determination of the court fees; metropolitan assignments; licensing the building and repairing of the churches; kadi assignments; trials for usurpation, murder and robbery and the verdicts of these trials; decisions on exile (banishment?) ; various cases of inheritance; clerk salaries; repair of the prisons and synagogues; forgiveness for some punishments. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1123-1293.
This series includes documents regarding military business such as the building and repairing of police stations; salaries of private soldiers ; assignments of civil servants to military units; ammunition (rifle, bullet, car, etc.) supply to some provincial military units; dispatching soldiers; building bastions; repairing castles; required construction of bridges to transfer troops and military ammunition; preservation of guns and gunpowder; building and repairing of the barracks; food supply for the soldiers; and founding various military troops. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 960-1314.
This series includes documents regarding municipal matters such as pavement repair; issues regarding the fire brigade; assignments of mukhtars and wardens; determination of the prices of various foods and drinks and cleaning materials; licencing the shops in the provinces; research into the broken goods production; and the repairing of the waterways. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1067-1295.
This series includes documents about the assignments of governors and provincial governors; salaries to be paid to the provincial governors and to some civil servants; negative states caused by the state officials ; some reforms within the state; people’s complaints; fight with the bandits; placements of refugees; and application of the Tanzimat reforms. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1012-1298.
This series includes documents about professors assignments ; management of the foundation goods; assignments of some religious officials like imams and preachers; states of zawiyahs; interventions (intercessions?) in the foundations; the repairing of the shrines; and conversion of some prayer rooms into mosques. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1012-1298.
This series includes documents regarding the relationships with the embassies; foreign merchants’ commercial activities across the Ottoman State; customs duty; assignments of the ambassadors; official writings to the foreign states; the general states of the embassies; allowing the commercial ships; the general issues throughout the country. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1025-1313.
