Agah Efendi

Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi
Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi
	Agah Efendi
Born	1832; Yozgat, Ottoman Empire
Died	1885; Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Occupation	Journalist, writer
Family	Çapanoğlu family

Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (1832 – 1885) was an Ottoman civil servant, writer and newspaper editor who, along with his colleague İbrahim Şinasi, published ("Interpreter of Events"), the first private newspaper by Turkish journalists, and introduced postage stamps to the Ottoman Empire.^[1]

Biography[]

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 [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.