Statesmen from Komotini in the Ottoman bureaucracy according to Sicill-i Ahval Defters

There has been a significant increase in the number of civil servants working in the Ottoman Empire bureaucracy since the Tanzimat period. In order to ensure the supervision of civil servants, the Sicill-i Ahval Commission was established in 1879 during the reign of Abdulhamid II. The main purpose of the Sicill-i Ahval Commission was to keep the records of the civil servants working in the official institutions of the Ottoman Empire. The books kept by the Commission included information such as the names of the civil servants, their fathers' names, places of birth, the schools they attended, the languages they knew, the institutions they worked in, the salaries they received, changes in their places of duty, the promotions they received, awards and punishments. The records of the Sicill-i Ahval Commission, consisting of 201 books and located in the Ottoman Archives of the Presidency of the State Archives of the Republic of Turkey, provide important information about the last century of the Ottoman Empire. In the Sicill-i Ahvâl Defters, where the biographical records of 51,652 civil servants are kept, the registry records of 69 civil servants born in Komotini were accessed and transcribed. The registry records that were accessed, information about the educational and economic situations of the civil servants born in Komotini and their position in the Ottoman bureaucracy was tried to be conveyed in the light of the documents.