Agah Efendi

Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (March 31, 1832 – January 2, 1886)^{[citation needed]} was an Ottoman Turkish 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]

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 [tr].

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.

• History of Middle Eastern newspapers

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• Ottoman Empire / Turkey. The “Sultan” Collection of the Tughra Issues (Part I)