مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - CIVIL REGISTRATION SERVICES IN OTTOMAN IN TERMS OF CENSUS, REGISTRATION SYSTEM, AND ORGANISATION

Abstract :

Civil registration services carried out in Turkey has long historical background starting from Ottoman Empire. Since the foundation of Ottoman Empire, in order to collect taxes and recruit solders, various records had been kept periodically. Modern population services in Ottoman Empire started after 1831 census and with the foundation of Census Department (Ceride-i Nufus Nezareti) under the Ministry of Interior and Census State units (Defter Nezareti) in other states. After the first general census in 1831, population records had been updated by 1844, 1852, 1856, 1866, 1881/82 and 1905 regional or general censuses. The civil registration system which has been formed according to the various needs had gone through several stages. In this study, being a new approach, Ottoman civil registration system is divided into three distinct periods as Classic Census Registrations Period; Special Purpose Civil Registration Period and General Purpose Civil Registration Period.The change in civil registration system has shown parallelism with the development of civil registration organization. At the beginning the Census Department which performed civil registration services turned into Directorate of Public Population in 1884. In 1889, this unit became General Directorate of Public Civil Registration. In 1914, it was reorganized and renamed as General Directorate of Civil Registration. The records that created with 1905 General Population writing and renewed population registration law (Sicil-i Nüfus Nizamnamesi) in 1914 became the basis of population services in Turkish Republic era.