Agah Efendi

Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi
Agah Efendi dressed in western clothing
Born	1832 Yozgat, Ottoman Empire
Died	1885 Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Occupation(s)	Journalist, writer

Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (1832 – 1885) was an Ottoman 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 firsts introduction of a constitutional system to the Empire, resulting in the short-lived First Constitutional Era.

See also

• History of Middle Eastern newspapers