Agah Efendi

This is an Ottoman Turkish style name. Agah is the given name, the title is Efendi, and there is no family name.
Agah Efendi
Born 1832
Yozgat
Died 1885
Athens
Nationality Ottoman Empire
Occupation journalist, writer

Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (1832–1885) was an Ottoman 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]

He, also with Şinasi, is also known as being a member of the Young Ottomans, a reformist secret society that enabled the firsts introduction of a constitutional system to the Empire, resulting the short-lived First Constitutional Era.

Agah Efendi was born in Yozgat and his father's name was Çapanzade Ömer Hulûsi Efendi. He was educated in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, in the Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahane.

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References

  1. "Agah Efendi". Retrieved 18 August 2016.
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