Agah Efendi

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Çapanzade, the title is Agah, and the family name is Efendi.

Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi
Agah Efendi
Born	March 31, 1832 Yozgat, Ottoman Empire
Died	January 2, 1886(1886-01-02) (aged 53) Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Occupation(s)	Journalist, writer
Family	Çapanoğlu family

Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (March 31, 1832 – January 2, 1886) was an Ottoman Turkish 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.

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

• History of Middle Eastern newspapers

External links

• Media related to Agâh Efendi at Wikimedia Commons
• Ottoman Empire / Turkey. The “Sultan” Collection of the Tughra Issues (Part I)