A profile of a distinct governor in the Ottoman rural administration: Mehmet Kamil Efendi

The researches about the Ottoman administrative/bureaucratic history adopt an overall point of view and look from center to the countryside. Most of the studies on the 19th century provincial administration are confined to general evaluations on the basis of the Rescript of Gülhane, Royal Edict of Reform, Lebanon regulations and regulations of Tuna province and interpret Ottoman administrative structure and changes experienced through fermans and regulations. Briefly, they have been in theoratical level, they do not suggest the existing situation they suggest what should happen. The importance is not given to the implementation of Restricts and Regulations or to their level of success. In other words it is seen that there is no detailed/micro work on the basis of person or the place. The workout aims to assess the Ottoman burocratic structure and its functioning by means of Mehmet Kamil Efendi's biography By this way Mehmet Kamil Efendi's registry information is obtained from Sicilli Ahval records and constitute an overall pattern. Based on this pattern it is endeavoured to assert a micro survey about how the Ottoman burocracy handled in rural by analyzing Mehmet Kamil Efendi's educational background and career. It will be seen while examining Mehmet Kamil Efendi's career the struggles of Ottoman burocracy to enforce discipline with its own rules in the schools that allow to train its own staff and development of civil burocracy.