District Governor Hasan Tahsin Efendi

The biographical researches related to the personalities the city brought up are also important among the studies carried out about the cities. Because the subjest of the history is humanbeing; it is not possible to think about historiography without human. In this study, the life of Hasan Tahsin Efendi who was born in the village of İbradı within the borders of Antalya [Teke] Sanjak of the province of Konya and had served in bureaucracy for twenty-six years was emphasised. Tahsin Efendi who was born at İbradi in 1850, joined Zaptiah Supervision Interrogation Room [Zaptiye Nezareti İstintak Odası] as a trainee in 1868 when he was eighteen years old after his education from Atik Mektebi and enrolled in the School of Civil Service Education [Mekteb-i Maarif-i Mülkiyye] in 1869, graduated in November 1872 and took up a position as an officer at Supreme Court Record Room [Divân-ı Ahkâm-ı Adliye Mazbata Odası]. He had been District Governor since 1873 in the districts of Ereğli, Seydişehir, Akşehir, Beyşehir and Bozkır within the borders of Konya province, and chief-collector in Niğde. He was appointed to the district governor of Bilan [Belen] of Halep province in the 27th September of 1892, and to the district governor of Zeytun in the same province in the 17th September of 1894 and he passed away in 30th October of 1894 while performing duty. Hasan Tahsin Efendi, as a district governor of Akşehir in 1876 was dismissed by the charges of bribery suggested by Ömer Efendi, the mufti of Aksehir district and was put on trial. Tahsin Efendi denied the allegations completely and finally was acquitted of bribery charges against him. While he was the district governor of Bozkır, he was accused of insulting and swearing an officer working at the government office. The accusation was also covers the deporting of the aforementioned officer to Karaman. In 1888, the kadi, muslim judge of the district, complained Tahsin Efendi for the following allegations: Bring forward the Eid al-Fitr by one day, from the 11th of June to the 10th of June; delivering the khutbah and allowing the Salat El Eid at the Great Mosque. But after the investigations, Tahsin Efendi was found not guilty, it was understood that the acts carried out by Tahsin Efendi were within the approval of the kadi of the district. One additional allegation was made against him when he was the district governor of Bozkır. Forcing Hacı Mehmet Efendi’s fiancee to marry someone else and causing the death of Hacı Mehmet Efendi by battering. But Tahsin Efendi was declared innocent like many previous accusations.Following the death of Tahsin Efendi, his family was in a difficult position. His family moved to their hometown, İbradı by means of the Atiyye-i Seniyye, imperial benevolence given by the Sultan in cash. His son Mehmet Reşit Efendi was enrolled to Senior High School [Mekteb-i İdâdî] in Aleppo free of charge. The family was in İbradı and the son, Mehmet Reşit Efendi was in Aleppo. The distance between İbradi and Aleppo was a problem for the transportation during the holidays. Then Mehmet Reşit Efendi made an application to carry on his education at the Mekteb-i İdâdî in Konya. His application was accepted and he was transferred to Mekteb-i İdâdî in Konya.In the study, based on the archive documents, some complaints and the results of these are included as well as his life as a district governor which had started in Ereğli and come to an end in Zeytun.