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Imperial ministry of the Ottoman Empire
Ministry of Interior Affairs
Ottoman Turkish: امورِ داخلیه نظارتی
Umur-ı Dâhiliye Nezâreti
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Agency overview
Formed1860
Preceding agency
Dissolved4 November, 1922
Superseding agency
JurisdictionOttoman Empire Ottoman Empire
HeadquartersConstantinople

The Ministry of the Interior (Ottoman Turkish: داخلیه نظارتی; Turkish: Dâhiliye nezareti) was from 1860 the interior ministry of the Ottoman Empire, based in Constantinople (now Istanbul).

History

Previously the Grand Vizier, upon the counsel of his advisor, managed the internal affairs of the state, but in 1860 a western-style ministry of the interior was established as part of a reform of the empire's administration. In 1839 an interior ministry detached from the Lieutenant of the Grand Vizier, or the sadaret kethüdası but was consolidated back into the Grand Vezierate's office two years later. Interior matters were handled by the undersecretary . After Fuad Pasha's death, Âli Pasha separated the offices again on 18 February, 1869.

Functions

The Ministry of the Interior held the responsibility for central administration of all internal matters of the empire. It received communiques and proposals from the provinces, from which some would be sent to legislative organs or the sultan. New laws which came from an İrade, or a sultan's pronouncement of approval, would be executed by the ministry. In its portfolio were all operations and personnel associated with security, police forces, local administrations, and the control over all bureaucrats outside the central government.

During the Tanzimat era the Ministry of the Interior maintained three inspectorates: Rumeli, Anatolia, and the Arab world. Commissions were maintained to maintain health and sanitation, and of the affairs of the Holy Cities.

Organization

According to the Corps de droit ottoman, the ministry included:

  • Census Bureau
  • Bureau of Emigrants
  • Passport Bureau
  • Pension Fund Directorate
  • Directorate of Internal Press
  • Commission for the Selection of Employees
  • Department of Service Staff

Circa 1905 the budget of the ministry was 495,300 Ottoman lira out of 954,364 for the government.

Other departments included:

In 1913 the Office for the Settlement of Tribes and Immigrants was established to deal with the refugee crisis following the Balkan Wars. The office played an important role during the Armenian genocide.

Successor

The Ministry of the Interior currently governs domestic affairs in Turkey.

List of interior ministers

Sources:

References

  1. ^ Young, George (1905). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 1. Clarendon Press. p. 27.
  2. Shaw & Shaw 1977, p. 71.
  3. ^ Shaw & Shaw 1977, p. 72.
  4. Sicil-i Osmani, Mehmet Süreyya Bey
  5. Son Dönem Osmanlı Erkan ve Ricali (1839 - 1922) Prosopografik Rehber, Sinan Kuneralp, ISIS Press, İstanbul, ISBN 9784281181, 1999

Sources

  • Shaw, Stanford; Shaw, Ezel (1977). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Vol. II. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-29166-6.
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