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Agah Efendi
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.[1] BiographyAgah 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 first introduction of a constitutional system to the Empire, resulting in the short-lived First Constitutional Era. See alsoReferences
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