
Abidin Pasha
Governor Abidin Pasha, son of Ahmet Dino Bey from Preveza, one of the Albanian notables, was born on 5 Rebîü’l-evvel 1259/24. He was born in the city of Preveza in March 1843. Abidin Pasha, who started reading Turkish and Greek at the age of seven and attended Kaleiçi School in Preveza at the age of nine, took courses in grammar, grammar and logic within the framework of his madrasah education; He reads Gülistan and Hafız-ı Sirazi’s Dîvân; deals with the sciences of calculation, geography and cosmography; He follows Greek works and takes French lessons. After receiving a good education in his hometown, he came to Istanbul in 1863 and entered the palace in 1866 as a Musketeer, as those of Albanian ancestry were preferentially recruited to the Palace Guard service. After continuing this service for about two years, he served as assistant governor of Preveza, central district governor and deputy governor, respectively. Abidin Pasha, who was there, returned to Istanbul and was assigned to the Aydin province, and in 1872 he was appointed as the second chairman of the Izmir Civil Appeals Assembly and the chairman of the newly established Law Commission. After this commission was abolished after a short time, he was appointed as the governor of Sofia, but before he could go there, he was assigned to the governorships of Erbaa, Mount Tekfur and Varna. In 1873, he was appointed as the Istanbul Stock Exchange commissioner, the first official stock exchange commissioner. II. By the order of Abdulhamid, he prepared the draft regulation regarding the two-level parliamentary elections, and was given the chairmanship of the Military Dispatch Commission established in Yanya during the 1993 war and the governorship of Yenişehir. Abidin Pasha, who was sent to Diyarbakır for the Eastern reform movements, was later appointed as the commissioner and governor of Sivas with the title of Rumelia beylerbeyi, and six months later, he was appointed as the governor of Thessaloniki. Abidin Pasha, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for three months in 1880, was appointed as the governor of Adana with the Mecidî medal. Abidin Pasha, who was appointed as the governor of Sivas for the second time in 1884, also served as the governor of Ankara between 1886 and 1891. Abidin Pasha, who lastly served as the governor of Cezâyir-i Bahr-i Sefîd (Mediterranean Islands) and returned to Istanbul after retiring from there, was appointed to the commission established for the reforms of Yemen. On 15 Rebîü’l-evvel 1324-/09 May 1906, while he was expected to be appointed as Grand Vizier in Yıldız Palace, he died as a result of a heart attack during the discussions held in the commission regarding the improvement of Yemeni affairs. Abidin Pasha is buried in the courtyard of Fatih Tomb. Abidin Pasha, who is married to Gül Hanım, is the father of two sons and two daughters. One of his daughters, Halide Hanım, with Dervîş Pasha; Ms. Nefise marries Nuri Bey. Nuri Bey is the father of well-known people in the fields of literature, art, politics and law. Member of Parliament and journalist Celal Nuri, cartoonist Sedat Nuri, and journalist and law professor Suphi Nuri are the children of this person. Salim Bey, one of Abidin Pasha’s sons, had no children. His other son is Abidin Dino’s father, Rasih Bey. ————————————————————

Tolun Çerkeş Note: Another daughter of Abidin Pasha is Refiye Hanım (Mori). Ms. Refiye marries Ankara printing house manager Zühtü Bey. When Zühtü Bey marries Süreyya Hanım from Istanbul after Refiye Hanım, he exiles her to Jerusalem as governor. Zühtü Bey hosted the German Emperor Wilhelm II here in 1898, and a few years later he died there at the age of 37 in a typhoid epidemic.
Sabire Hanım and Mari (Mori?) are not mentioned above. In his biography in the air games book, Sabire Hanım is mentioned, but her other son is not mentioned, and it is written that Mari was with a Greek lady whom he had an affair with while he was on duty in Rhodes. Since Abidin Pasha, who served as the Governor of the Mediterranean Islands in Rhodes for 13 years, died in Istanbul, where he was called for Yemen reform negotiations, it is very unlikely that his daughter Mari was Mori (Refiye Hanım) or was born in the same year or the following years when she took office. is a possibility. According to the statements of Ms. Musharraf’s children, they used to ride on her back when they were children. She was in her 90s and died about 60 years ago in the 1950s. In this case, Mori Nene was born in the 1860s. In this case, if Mari Pasha, who was from the Greek lady in Rhodes, died, at best, the Pasha’s death date could have been 13 years old, in which case it was too early for her to marry Zühtü Pasha and have children. Therefore, it is unlikely that Refiye Hanım (Mori) was Mari or that Mari was born in Rhodes in those years. If Mori Mari, then he must have been born before his appointment to Rhodes.
Refiye Hanım’s son from Zühtü Pasha is Atatürk’s prosecutor, Nazım Çerkeş. Nazım Çerkeş has 3 children from his marriage with Fatma Hanım. Yaşar, Metin, Müşerref.
Zühtü Bey has two daughters with his second wife, Süreyya Hanım from Istanbul. Ms. İclal and Ms. Haluka. Ms. İclal marries the architect Vedat Bakırer. From this marriage, they have two children named Ömür and Yaşa. ———————————————————— Abidin Dino’s Family Tree If you want, let’s start from the beginning, with the famous Governor of Adana, Abidin Pasha. Abidin Pasha was born in the town of Preveza in Ioannina, which was then an Ottoman province. So in today’s Greece… He had 4 daughters named Nefise, Sabire, Halide and Mari and a son named Rasih. Pasha, who spoke 6 languages and was raised in western culture, served as the Governor of Adana between 1882 and 1886. He had the Military High School building built in Adana, opposite the governor’s mansion and on the banks of the Seyhan River. (Current Historical Girls High School Building) He last served as Governor in Rhodes. One of the pasha’s children, Rasih (married to a lady named Saffet), had children named Ali and Arif, in order of age. Abidin was born in Istanbul on March 23, 1913, as the last child of the family. In other words, exactly 30 years after his grandfather Abidin Pasha became the Governor of Adana…
Ali Fell in Love and Stayed in Greece

During the years when Turkey’s borders were redrawn, the Dino Family returned to Turkey through population exchange, while the eldest brother stayed in Greece because he was in love with a very beautiful Dalmatian girl named Alba. He became Greece’s most important cartoonist. Saffet Hanım was born from his marriage with Alba. Thus, I understood why Ms. Saffet, who came to visit me, was a Greek citizen. ———————————————————— Let me say right from the beginning that Abidin and his older brother Arif Dino were called – Albanians – in the 1930s and later. He was known as Abidin -Albanian Abidin- or simply -Alnavut- in the circles of the Communist Party of Türkiye. This was perfectly natural because the family was of Albanian origin. We can even say that Abidin’s father’s side, that is, the Dino family, is the founder of the country known as Albania. Epirus and Ioannina were ruled by this family. This family settled here as margraves after the Ottoman conquests. Abidin’s grandfather, Abidin Pasha, owned a farm and 99 thousand decares of land in Preveza. (The Epirus region was divided between Albania and Greece after 1918. The province of Ioannina remained in Greece.) Abidin’s mother, Saffet Hanım’s family, is known as Gaziturhans, and they also settled in the Peloponnese after the conquests. (The Peloponnese Peninsula is within the borders of Greece today.) Dinos and Gaziturhans were among the Anatolian feudal lords who took over the Balkans and Europe together with the Ottomans. As a result of their participation in these conquests, the conquered lands or a certain part of the lands were left to them. On the other hand, the Dino family gave statesmen who served in important positions in different periods of time, both in the Ottoman Empire and later in the Republic of Albania. For example, Abidin Dino’s father, Rasih Bey’s father, Abidin Pasha (1843-1908), assumed various positions within the Ottoman Empire for many years: He entered the Ottoman service as a musketeer in 1866. Albanians were always preferred in the Ottoman Palace guard service. Abidin Pasha’s older brother Veysel also passed through the same path. Both of them rose step by step in the Ottoman civil service. In addition to being literate, each of them knew seven or eight languages. Abidin Pasha was fluent in Greek, Serbian, Arabic, Persian, Latin and French, as well as Ottoman and Albanian. He was appointed governor first of Adana and then of Ankara. In Adana, where he remained in office for four years and nine months, he had the Junior High School, the famous Clock Tower built, and the street that bears his name today opened. In order to rehabilitate the Seyhan River and irrigate the Adana Valley, he brought a large number of Albanian guards from Ioannina with his own means and set to work, but with the timely intervention of Abdulhamid, who feared that if Çukurova became a cotton paradise, it would be lost to us like Egypt, Abidin Pasha was appointed governor of Ankara. . The Clock Tower in the castle in Ankara, where he served for eight years, is his work.He was the one who ordered homeowners to have a « kenifhane » in their homes… He had a mansion built for himself in the place that is today called Abidin Pasha District… In 1881, Abidin Pasha was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). He was later appointed Governor of the Mediterranean Islands. Abidin Pasha’s older brother, Veysel Pasha, is less well-known, but like his brother, he held a ministerial position: he became the Minister of Police and at that time, he brought many “musketeers” and “bouncers” from Albania and placed them in the police force of the Empire. We can even say that he founded the police force with them. As a matter of fact, for many years, Albanians held important positions, especially in the Istanbul police force, and were quite influential. Even in the 1950s, the influence of Albanians was still felt in the Istanbul police force. Abidin told me these things from time to time. Abidin was known as an “incorrigible, extremist communist” in those years. He was forced to live in exile within the country since 1942. During his days in Istanbul at the beginning of the 1950s, some pretty unpleasant things happened to him, he was detained, followed, etc., but I think Abidin’s being an Albanian might have been of some use to him if things weren’t worse. Abidin Dino lived in Paris for most of his eighty years. Its relationship with Albania remained extremely limited. Despite this, Albanians did not forget him: Although this is of course primarily due to Abidin being a famous painter, writer and illustrator, we cannot deny his connection with his family. Especially if we remember that after Albania gained its independence, there were members of the Dino family living in Albania at various levels of state administration, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs… Today, the Republic of Albania’s gratitude and issuing a stamp for Abidin Dino is the coughing of history or a smile with a bunch of tulips. is to do. Well, that’s fine with other postal administrations. (M. Şehmus Güzel) ————————————————————However, I think Abidin’s being an Albanian might have helped him a bit if things weren’t worse. Abidin Dino lived in Paris for most of his eighty years. Its relationship with Albania remained extremely limited. Despite this, Albanians did not forget him: Although this is of course primarily due to Abidin being a famous painter, writer and illustrator, we cannot deny his connection with his family. Especially if we remember that after Albania gained its independence, there were members of the Dino family living in Albania at various levels of state administration, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs… Today, the Republic of Albania’s gratitude and issuing a stamp for Abidin Dino is the coughing of history or a smile with a bunch of tulips. is to do. Well, that’s fine with other postal administrations. (M. Şehmus Güzel) ————————————————————However, I think Abidin’s being an Albanian might have helped him a bit if things weren’t worse. Abidin Dino lived in Paris for most of his eighty years. Its relationship with Albania remained extremely limited. Despite this, Albanians did not forget him: Although this is of course primarily due to Abidin being a famous painter, writer and illustrator, we cannot deny his connection with his family. Especially if we remember that after Albania gained its independence, there were members of the Dino family living in Albania at various levels of state administration, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs… Today, the Republic of Albania’s gratitude and issuing a stamp for Abidin Dino is the coughing of history or a smile with a bunch of tulips. is to do. Well, that’s fine with other postal administrations. (M. Şehmus Güzel) ————————————————————
Dino, Tek, Ebüzziya, Talu: An intricate family
Abidin Pasha’s son-in-law, Mustafa Nuri Bey, was also the Minister of the Treasury and a member of the Notables. This Mustafa Nuri Bey is Rasih Nuri İleri’s paternal grandfather. Ahmet Fuat Pasha, another brother of Mustafa Nuri, one of the four children of Helvacızade Salih Tosun Efendi, served as the governor of Kütahya for 16 years. Yusuf Razi Bel from the marriage of his other brother Sırrı i Giridi (Sırrı Pasha), whose real name is Muhammed Selim Sırrı, who served as governors in the most important regions of the Ottoman Empire, including Baghdad, and who wrote many other books in addition to the book titled Sırr ı Kur’an, with Leyla Saz Hanım. (He took this surname because of his French wife) and he has two children, the architect Vedat (Tek). Nihat, one of the three children of Vedat Bey (married to Firdevs Koniça (Dino)), is also known as an architect. Ali Neyzi, Nezih Neyzi, İsmail Arar are some of Sırrı Pasha’s grandchildren from his daughters. Helvacızade’s other child is Mehmet Ağa, who is from her second wife and prefers to stay in Crete.
There are also well-known names among Mustafa Nuri Bey’s cousins. One of them, İsmail Fazıl Pasha, is the father of Ali Fuat Cebesoy, from his marriage to Zekiye Hanım, the daughter of Müşir Mehmet Ali Pasha and Ayşe Sıdıka Hanım. The İleri family is also related to Mehmet Ali Aybar Nazım Hikmet, one of the leading figures of the Turkish communists, through İsmail Fazıl Pasha’s wife.
While Abidin Pasha was the governor of Adana, Mustafa Nuri Bey, the grandfather of Rasih Nuri İleri, was the deputy governor of Adana. Abidin Pasha marries his elder daughter Nefise (Abidin Pasha’s children from Gül Hanım, other than Nefise Hanım, are Rasih, Sabire (Talu’s grandmother) and Halide) to Mustafa Nuri Bey. Celal, who was the writer of the Çiftin, Jön Türk, Ati, İkdam and İleri newspapers, who later published the newspaper Yılmaz, was one of the deputies who voted for the Pact in the Ottoman Parliament, was exiled to Malta and was the Chairman of the Constitutional Commission in the First Parliament. Nuri, Sedat Nuri, known as a cartoonist and the founder of Istanbul Radio, and Prof. He has three children named Suphi Nuri İleri: “A friend of mine gave me the certificate stating that the Trakya Paşaeli Defense of Law Society sent my uncle Celal Nuri as a delegate to Europe and America. I don’t know that he went as a delegate. The document is an interesting document. “There are also signatures of my old friend Mihri Belli’s father, Hayrettin Belli, Şakir Kesebir and Öztrak.” Suphi Nuri Bey, the father of Rasih Nuri İleri, is someone who, after completing his doctorate in France, participated in the Canal Expedition as the Airborne Company Commander in the 4th Army and served as the head of the justice and intelligence branch at Cemal Pasha’s headquarters: “He sent the army treasury from Damascus. He kidnaps him and delivers him to Aleppo, to Mustafa Kemal Pasha.” Suphi Nuri İleri, who was the General Secretary of the Reserve Officers during the Armistice, also served as the General Secretary of the Socialist Party: “According to the British archives, he is shown as Atatürk’s representative in Europe. I have two passports. One of them is signed by Bekir Sami. He is someone who also attended the Lausanne Conference. Atatürk writes several articles about the Syrian War in the Ati newspaper with my father’s signature. Also, according to the agreement Mustafa Kemal made with Comte Sforza, the Italian delegate of the Occupation Forces, he and Cami Baykut went to Italy before the occupation of Izmir, bought weapons and brought them to Izmir. But Izmir administrative authorities did not agree to buy the weapons. Thereupon, the weapons were brought to the beach around Ödemiş. Ataturk’s plan there was almost a preventive plan for the War of Independence, as a device against the occupation of Izmir… However, the Italians had a different intention. I saw the archive of Cami Baykut (later Minister of Internal Affairs in the 1st Parliament). After the incident with my father, Mr. Cami went to Italy two more times and bought a gun. That part of Turkish history is ignored for some reason. My father didn’t talk much about political issues. At that time, the old Unionists had a concept of secret.” İleri, who published an evening newspaper in 1924, was sent to the Elazığ Independence Court for his criticisms: “My father had a telegram from İsmet Pasha saying ‘I hope you will be acquitted’. Atatürk had İsmet Pasha write that telegram. “So my father was acquitted, and after that he got fed up with politics.” Suphi Nuri İleri, who was also the chairman of the commission in Lesbos, one of the commissions established for the exchange of Muslim and Christian Orthodox,Later, he taught at Istanbul University Faculty of Law, Higher Commerce and Economics faculties and Maltepe Military High School. He was expelled from the university when he wrote an article praising Turkey in a newspaper on the differences between Ottoman imperialism and German imperialism. He dies one day after the Tan incident.
exile upon exile
One of the characteristics of the Abidin Pasha family is that they are constantly exiled: “Being against injustice is in the genes of the family. Abidin Pasha’s father died in exile in Konya. Abidin Pasha was exiled while he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and was even banned from coming to his mother’s funeral. My uncle was also exiled. My father was tried at the Elaziz Independence Court. My uncles were exiled in 1942. On the one hand, there is Kuva-i Milliyeism, and on the other hand, there is leftism. At the same time, leftism and communism…”
Suphi Nuri İleri is married to Leyla Hanım, who is also from the same family: “My parents are siblings. There are four families on my mother’s side. Dinos, Cabbars, Gazi Turhans and Aslanpaşas; These are based on Çorumlu Demirtaş Umur Bey. “Marriages within the family are the rule to prevent the division of the land.”
Who else do you know in the family?
“A crowded family. I won’t say that I don’t know anyone without relatives in Istanbul, but there are so many relatives that they can’t be counted. For example, journalist Umur Talu, the grandson of Abidin Pasha and Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem, is my cousin. Ziyad Ebüzziya, he is also a relative of mine, from Aslanpaşa. There is also a book full of fantasy on this subject. MHP’s Mahmut Çetin reveals family ties in his book The Tribe on the Bosphorus. However, the relationship between Aybar and Sabahattin Ali could not be explained in the book. “They are both from the Gelenbevi family.”
Leyla Hanım is the sister of Ali Ekrem, Ali, Arif, Abidin and Ahmet Dino, who was born to Suphi Nuri’s mother, Nefise Hanım, and her brother Rasih Bey, apart from Halide and Sabire, from Saffet Gazi Turhan Hanım. All of these famous members of the Dino family, except Ahmet, who is a good painter, are known as painters. Apart from the wedding in 1909, the Leyla Suphi Nuri couple remarried in Geneva in 1919 and got married once again. Rasih Nuri, the only child of the family and a tireless advocate of socialism in the following years, was born here in 1920. The family came to Istanbul in 1921 and settled in Abidin Pasha’s mansion in Yeniköy: “In Yeniköy, where I spent my childhood, the locals were Greek, the tradesmen, the servants in the houses, everyone was Greek. It was impossible to live in Yeniköy and not know Greek at that time. Turks were mostly mansion owners.”
Is there Greek origin in the family?
“Part of the family is from Preveza and part is from Crete. Leyla Saz’s father, Hekim İsmail Pasha, is of Greek origin. There were constant wars against the Greeks in Crete and Epiros (Ioannina). The older generation in the family knew Greek. My father knew very well but did not speak. “The environment in which Rasih Nuri İleri, who spent his childhood in such an environment, consists of a socialist environment: “I have been in that line since my birth. “I found Marxist Leninist Trotskyist books in my father’s library and read them.” Rasih Nuri İleri is, in a sense, a born socialist.
Ileri starts his education in the fifth grade of primary school. He registers to Galatasaray. Rasih Nuri, who was a good student, studied with Velid Ebüzziya’s son Selim, Kılıç Ali’s son Gündüz, Fazıl Ahmet’s son Eşvak Aykaç: “As a family, we knew French very well. “It made me a little lazy.” Forward leaves Galatasaray, which provides 12 years of education, in order to graduate earlier and moves to Haydarpaşa High School. Ileri, who wants to be an engineer, cannot go abroad for education because World War II broke out the year he graduated. Prof. Seha Meray, Prof. Hasan Utarit İzgi, Prof. It was 1943 when Metin Hotinli graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Mathematics, which he entered in 1939, together with his friends such as the famous physicist Feza and Nejdet Çobanlı. Coming from a socialist environment, Rasih Nuri even became an active socialist in these years: “Until Stalin died in the 30s, I was on the dole again. I knew about the Soviet Revolution when I was in high school. We had a Marxist research group at the university. Then we would conduct secret training in workers’ homes. Let me name a few of the people who attended those trainings, it will be very funny. One of them, Kemal Karpat, is now in America. Then Hıfzı Topuz. This paragraph is not in Topuz’s memoirs. He wants to make people forget his leftism.” Rasih Nuri was registered as a member of the Communist Party of Türkiye by Ferit Kalmuk in 1942.
Made up by Hıfzı Topuz
sabotage
Meanwhile, İleri works as a teacher by teaching at Eyüp Secondary School while he is still a university student. After three years of this job, he started working at Beyoğlu Gas Company while he was in his final year at university: “Hıfzı Topuz has a very nice memoir. However, the section he wrote about me because of Sabahattin Ali is full of mistakes. Cemal Süreya did the same thing before. He also did a so-called interview with me. There he says that I committed sabotage in the Beyoğlu Gas Company in the 40s. If I had committed sabotage, I would have been taken directly to Sansaryan Inn and a lawsuit would have been filed. “The incident has nothing to do with sabotage.” The truth of the matter is different. Ileri, who works in the control room, realizes that the gas went out when a black worker, who had smoked marijuana, turned the wrong valve during a midnight shift, and immediately opens the valve. Cutting off the gas in this way means a danger that could lead to explosions: “Süreya, whoever heard it from him, explained it as sabotage. After that, many people started to say, ‘Oh hero Rasih Abi, you did brilliant things in your youth.’ We were working in shifts in the control room with Hıfzı Topuz. Supposedly, I wrote the reports there and did not give them to the manager, and that’s why they fired Hıfzı. According to him, that’s how he became a famous journalist. If I didn’t give the reports, why did they kick him out and not me? The truth is that the salary I received there was not enough to live on, so I had to resign.”
Rasih Nuri then started working as a journalist in Yeni Dünya newspaper and Gün magazine with the orders of TKP, alongside Esat Adil (Müstecablıoğlu). Afterwards, he took on duties in the unions that were subsidiaries of the Socialist Labor and Peasant Party of Türkiye, founded by Şefik Hüsnü. He founded the Adana Union of Trade Unions in 1946. He joined the military in 1948, shortly after the incident of Sabahattin Ali, who hid in his house and was later caught and killed while he was about to escape abroad. Rasih Nuri’s military service alone is the subject of a novel. Forward, the soldier experiences adventure after adventure. First, at Ankara Reserve Officer School, despite passing the exams successfully, he was asked to be made a sergeant instead of an officer: “My officer, Staff Captain Muzaffer Yurdakuler, called me and said, ‘I have three personalities. First of all, I am a human being, then an officer, and then a teacher at a reserve officer school. Today, all three of my personalities were trampled on. “They ordered me to leave you for supplies, but I couldn’t prevent it.” That Yurdakuler, who will take part in the National Unity Committee as Colonel Muzaffer Yurdakuler on May 27, does not accept this behavior towards Rasih Nuri: “I am giving you a permission slip. You can leave here whenever you want and do your business. “I know you know a lot.” If Forleri cannot complete his job, he will have to serve 6 months as a reserve officer and 3 years as a sergeant. He can’t handle his job, but he completes his military service in two years based on a law. The location of Forward is constantly changed during this period. First he is sent to the Gallipoli Engineering Construction Battalion: “Our colonel there, Deli Cemil, blew up the Tunca and Meriç bridges when he could not establish contact with the higher levels in the Second World War.” Then, İleri is taken to court on charges of 141 in the military service. I am showing the decision to the Minister of National Defense (Hüseyin) Hüsnü Çakır. He does something that doesn’t happen in the military. Normally, a private is not appointed, but by order he assigns me as a translator from the 2nd Army to the 1st Army Intelligence Branch. I come, they are making bread sergeant. Then I became the command sergeant of Baransel, even though they sent me into exile.” When he finished his military service, he was transferred to Hadımköy Artillery Command.
The calendar shows 1950 when Rasih Nuri left this difficult military service period behind. That year, the Democratic Party also came to power: “I had a very happy marriage as soon as I got out of the military.” Ileri, who married Emine Hanım, the daughter of Salih Bosna, and Bedia Hanım, the child of the ascetic Mehmet Ali Behlil, had three children from this marriage. In addition to Leyla, who died of gas poisoning in 1991, the eldest children of the İleri family are the writer Suphi Nuri, who married Refik Durbaş’s sister, Mahmure Hanım (from this marriage, he has a daughter named Esin), and the painter Mehmet Can, who lives abroad (he is also Rezzan Hanım). He is married to and has a child named Eren Can) and they have three children named Eren Can.
The 1950s were difficult years for socialists. During this period, there were even those who changed sides due to political influence. Hilmi Ziya Ülgen is one of them. Rasih Nuri İleri will also have his share of the difficulties of the period. Ileri, who became a businessman, went down in history as Turkey’s first serigrapher:
Where did this idea come to your mind?
“It’s pretty simple. They were not giving jobs. The differences between that period and the period after March 12 were that leftists could work after March 12. They were condemned to starvation during the DP period. There was such heavy pressure that it is unimaginable today. Today, many leftists own cars. We broke up when Fuat İzer, with whom we founded the first screen printing company, wanted to exclude me. “He bankrupted the company.” Rasih Nuri also tried many different jobs: “I worked as an elevator operator. I worked in a lot of technical jobs. I even transported dynamite stoppers. “I did it wherever I found work.”
He is accused of being a communist and a CIA agent
And May 27: “May 27 was not something we expected, but something we participated in. The murder of Turan Emeksiz, and then the start of student movements in universities…” Later on, he became a university student again and is a law student: “The day Turan Emeksiz was killed, I was distributing leaflets in Beyazıt. I thought, if these documents are caught on me, it will be thought that ‘communists participated in this movement’. Thereupon, I went to the Sahaflar Bazaar and gave the documents to Aslan Kaynardağ, a former communist. I returned home and was waiting. “We all fought against the DP, not organizationally but personally.”
In 1961, the Turkish Workers’ Party was established and started its activities. One year after the establishment of the party, TİP executives offered the position of party chairman to Mehmet Ali Aybar. Aybar became the head of TİP together with former Turkish Communist Party members, some of whom were arrested and acquitted during the 1951 arrest. Besides Aybar, there are Behice Boran, Rasih Nuri and Sadun Aren, who will join them later: “Those who are not members of the Communist Party, such as Adnan Cemgil, also joined us.” TİP receives 3 percent of the votes in 1965. It increases the voting rate in Senate elections and local elections to 5.5 percent. Meanwhile, the Aybar Boran Aren group attempts to expel 13 people (13’s Incident), including Rasih Nuri İleri and Halit Çelenk, from the party (1967). One of the reasons is to remove ‘dangerous groups’ from the party that would cause the party to be closed down. The second is that the young base of the party began to read these publications, as the Constitutional Court did not allow left-wing publications and what it did grant was enough to start a left-wing publication trend, especially after 1965: “He was the one who frightened the party the most. Because all young people started reading those publications.” Another reason is Aybar’s statement: ‘We brought the party to this situation, we will wrestle to the top in ’69. It is his statement that we will not lose the party to anyone: “They shamefully handed us over to the court of dignity. Why is it shameful? Because they accused us of leftism. The agency objected. Thereupon, they made a second claim. Because they are CIA agents. This was even uglier. First we were declared members of TKP, then we were declared CIA agents. However, when the party organization reacted, nearly 200 local administrators were expelled along with us.” Thereupon, Behice Boran, Sadun Aren, Deputy Secretary General Nihat Sargın, former founder of the Socialist Party, lawyer Minetullah Haydaroğlu, and former veteran technician Şaban Erik form a bloc against Aybar. The party gets mixed up. Extraordinary congresses take place one after the other. After the fourth congress, Behice Boran became the head of the party: “But at that time, what we call the youth movement in Turkey, Dev Genç, emerged. It was first founded by Sadun Aren as the Federation of Idea Clubs to win over the youth. But then this organization got out of control. The 68 movement, which spread all over the world, set an example for young people. Undoubtedly, this movement is a Kuva-i Milliye movement. The left is Kuva i Milliyeci. As a result, there was a rupture in the party. Meanwhile, another mistake occurred. The Mihri Belli problem arose. Former TKP member Belli tried to take over the opposition movement. Then I count four criminals; M. Ali Aybar, Behice Boran, Sadun Aren and Mihri Belli. “Three from inside and one from outside.” According to Rasih Nuri İleri, this date is also the date when the left in Turkey fragmented: “After that date, a fragmentation occurred in the left that could never recover.”
Forleri, who continues his struggle until the end to get the decision of expulsion from TİP reversed, cannot succeed. Forward, who also entered the publishing business in the 1960s, was among the founders of the National Democratic Revolution Association in 1968. In 1969, he was imprisoned for a book he translated, and in 1970 he became the chairman of the Istanbul Workers’ Union. After March 12, İleri was tried as the leader of a secret organization called the June Movement: “After the coup, I stayed in the counter-guerrilla for a month. In Ziverbey, favored people received lighter treatment. “The torture I was subjected to lasted 27 days, with 3 days of rest.” Then Selimiye and Maltepe Barracks: “I was acquitted before the end of the case. This time, unlike the 1950s, all doors are open.” Having become a member of the Labor Party again, which was founded for the second time in 1975, In 1978, İleri also gained a right that he could not obtain before: “Even my best friend Medeni Berk, who also served as Deputy Prime Minister (Menderes), could not do this. “I could not get a passport under any regime.” Rasih Nuri can only get his passport, which has not been given to him since 1939, thanks to the Minister of National Defense Hasan Esat Işık.
Again the escalated terror and the expected incident afterwards: September 12: “In our period, they used to torture people to make them talk. Torture would end the day you entered prison. After September 12, torture continued in prison. The book of the plan implemented on September 12 was written before March 12 and translated into Turkish by the General Staff. What to do is written in the famous CIA agent Kaluga’s Kongtrguerrilla book.”
Rasih Nuri İleri continues to fight after 80 years. In the 1990s, Nihat Sargın and Nabi Yağcı founded the United Communist Party of Turkey: “At that time, something happened that the former communists did not understand. It is understood today that the leaders of the party were under the influence of Gorbachev at that time. In other words, they founded the party to liquidate it. Mehmet Bozışık, Şahap Bakırsan and I made an incredibly heavy opposition. But the Constitutional Court closed the party. Its importance brought down the leaders.” Rasih Nuri then joins the Socialist Unity Party. He continues his fight against the same people here: “When I saw that the SBP and its successor, the BSP (United Socialist Party), were gradually leaving socialism, I resigned from the board of directors.” The last stop of İleri in this long political adventure in the socialist arena is the Socialist Power Party. As can be seen, Rasih Nuri İleri’s struggle is a struggle against the inside rather than the outside: “I never had the opportunity to wrestle at the front. Because in order to wrestle ahead, you have to accept some things. For example, I had to accept Stalin’s opposition against Trotsky until Khrushchev, and then what was done against Shafiq Husni from 1962 to 1987. However, since I could never defend what I did not find right, I never had a chance in politics.”
At the end of his struggle against those within him, there comes a time when İleri finds himself in a situation where there is no one left around him: “I realized that I would not greet anyone. I said I was talking nonsense. If I don’t talk to anyone I fight with, who will I talk to? I made a rule: I greet anyone who greets me. Today, I even talk to Nabi Yağcı, whom I insulted the most severely. Aybar, Boran, Aren and Belli, against whom I wrote a book, later became very friends with me. I am not offended by anyone on the left. But on the right, I probably cannot forgive Demirel, Özal, Çiller, Yılmaz and Ecevit.”
Rasih Nuri İleri, who lived such a devoted life to socialism, became the owner of 90 thousand decares of land in Preveza, 180 thousand decares in old Adana and the Abidin Pasha District in Ankara Cebeci, whose value reaches large amounts today, thanks to Abidin Pasha’s son Rasih Dino. While it could have been…: “There was an incredible wealth before I was born. The Balkan and Independence Wars, the Anatolianism movement, the People’s Party regime… They implemented a policy aimed at taking those lands from the family. The policy of collapse was implemented very successfully. I lived a moneyless life until recent years. “If I had good financial power, everything could have been different in the party struggles.”
I have one last question for Rasih Nuri İleri, who resigned from his membership at Galatasaray, where he was a board member, because it was being privatized, loves all kinds of good music as well as baroque music, and is the owner of a large library containing many left-wing and anti-left books.
If you weren’t a communist….?
I know the answer, I have it.
email: ckalyoncu@hotmail.com
Genealogy of Abidin Pasha & Article about Abidin Dino mithatsarcan.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html
Abidin Pasha and His Works Abidin Pasha is not only a distinguished statesman but also a wise and literary person. He is fluent in Arabic, Persian, Albanian, French and Greek. II. By the order of Abdülhamid, he prepared the draft of the Regulation on the election of deputies by the public in two stages. Abidin Pasha, who has a personality prone to science and literature, wrote Translation and Commentary of Mesnevî-i Serif, Translation and Commentary, two of which are translation and commentary. He has seven works named: i Kasîde-i Bürde, Âlem-i islâmiyeti Müdâfaa, Meâlî-i islâmiyy, Saâdet-i Dünya, Türkçe Nahv ı Arabî, Konsolid Hava Oyunları istikrâzât. Translation and Commentary on Mesnevî-i Şerîf Sheikh Nurettin Efendi, from the Sünbüliyye-i Cemâliyye sect, post-nişîn of Merkez Efendi lodge, is the sheikh of Âbidin Pasha. However, there is not enough information about when he joined the sect and the degree of contact he had with his sheikh. Abidin Pasha, who is observed to follow the line of Sunni Sufism in his works, is a scholar and statesman who respects the Sufis. After completing his work titled Tercüme ve Serh-i Kasîde-i Bürde, he went to the tomb of Hacı Bayram-ı Velî and wrote a verse and stated that he wrote the last line of the first volume of the Mesnevi Commentary after visiting the tomb of Semseddîn Sivâsî. is an expression. The sign of his scientific equipment is his work titled Tercüme ve Serh-i Mesnevi-i Serif. Abidin Pasha expresses his respect and love for Mesnevi as follows: “After the Holy Quran, I get the greatest pleasure in the world from the analysis of Mesnevi-i Serif.” “One of my most special desires in the afterlife is to receive the grace of Allah Almighty, the intercession of our Prophet (pbuh) and to meet with the noble souls of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rûmî.” The most important work that made Abidin Pasha famous is undoubtedly his six-volume work called Tercüme and Serh-i Mesnevî-i Serif, in which he translated and annotated the first volume of Mevlana’s Mesnevi. He started writing the first volume of his work in Adana in 1884 and completed it in Sivas in 1885. Abidin Pasa, who had the first volume published in Sivas in 1303/1885, had the second, third and fourth volumes published in Ankara. Later, he had all six volumes printed in Tahir Bey Printing House in Istanbul in 1305-1306/1887-1888. Although there is no information given by Abidin Pasha about when he finished the mentioned commentary, the date of publication of the last volume, 1887-1888, shows that he probably started this work in 1302/1884 and completed it in 1306/1888. In the introduction of the work, Abidin Pasha makes the following evaluation: When referring to “Mesnevî-i Şerîf”, according to my humble feeling, it is not possible for the works that have emerged from human beings to be equal to Mesnevi in terms of spirituality and mentality. Every couplet of Mesnevi can be considered as a great property. It is a great river of wisdom that causes pain and torment to those whose minds are corrupt; It is sweetness and enjoyment for those whose minds are not corrupt.I did not overwhelm this volume, which I was successful in translating and annotating, with unintelligible and unintelligible words. On the contrary, I was careful to use expressions that everyone could understand. My idea was not in providing vague words, but in researching the meaning. I wanted to write down as concisely as possible even the meanings that came to my humble memory. Although it was my desire and ambition to write concisely and clearly, I cannot claim that I succeeded in this desire. Writing clearly and concisely, even though it is meaningful, is a difficult task. One of the authors wrote to one of his friends: My friend, I would like to write clearly and briefly. However, due to lack of time, I have to write in detail and vaguely.” Although this work is a commentary, in the words of Mektûb-i Vilâyet Mümeyyizî Rıza Efendi, it contains narrative and rational evidence and philosophical issues to prove the unity of God Almighty, as well as various meanings depending on civil, legal and other rules. also includes. While commenting on the couplets, Abidin Pasa sometimes referred to the Quran verses and hadiths, tried to explain the issues by giving examples from real life, and unlike Bursevî did, he did not focus much on words in his work. In his commentary, Abidin Pasha took the Persian text of a couplet from Mesnevi, translated the couplet into Turkish with the title “Translation” and made the commentary of the couplet with the title “Commentary”. He sometimes translated the couplets word for word and sometimes gave the meanings of some words that were difficult to understand. He explained the words he needed to explain in the commentary section. Sometimes he used a translation technique with extensive explanations in the translation style. For example, he wrote a twenty-page commentary on the first couplet of Mesnevi. He also tries to explain the issues by giving examples from real life from time to time. Although very few, there are couplets in his work that he does not annotate. In his commentary, he did not number the Mesnevi couplets and did not show the sources of the hadiths. Pasha finished his work with the verse “A victory from Allah and a close conquest” (Saf, 61/13). Until Abidin Pasha, many commentaries were written on Mevlana’s Mesnevi. The commentaries of Ankaravî, Sarı Abdullah Efendi and Bursevî are just a few of them. By writing his commentary, Abidin Pasha did not break new ground, but continued a tradition that continued until his time. After him, this tradition was continued by people such as Ahmed Avni Konuk and Tahirü’l-Mevlevi and many commentaries were produced. Abidin Pasha’s Commentary on Masnavi was written in accordance with the language of the century in which he lived, with the joy, intellectual and social characteristics and special terminology of his time. For this reason, the work has the feature of being a valuable work that sheds light on the characteristics of its period. Abidin Pasha, who printed the first volume, sent a copy to Ahmet Cevdet Pasha. Ahmed Cevdet Pasha expresses his opinions about the work with the following expressions in the letter he wrote after reading this first volume:”Among all these important preoccupations, an opportunity was found for the annotation of Mesnevi-i Şerîf, and the first volume was immediately printed and a copy was sent to me. I felt indescribably excited. May your work and noble donations be accepted, and may your noble names be remembered with goodness as Mesnevi is recited in the gatherings of the people of heart. Everyone gives meaning to the nicknames and signs of Mesnevi as much as they can and interprets them as they wish in their imagination. Although various commentaries have been written and translations have been made on this analogy, Abidin Pasha’s important work is admirable because he has taken care in his commentary by applying it to the language of the century. Masnavi does not become obsolete and its content does not change. However, its application varies according to the knowledge of the century. Because every era has its joy and every century has its own thoughts and feelings.” —————————————————————————————————————————————–As a family of feudal origin The drama is there. Some people gamble and make mistakes, but that’s not the case in our family. Due to the political conjuncture, a policy of collapse is being implemented through wars and governments. It was a very successful policy. “I have no complaints, I wish these things hadn’t happened.” Rasih Nuri İleri is known as a person who was among those who formed the highest circle of socialism in Turkey. Another feature of his is that he is a member of a very, very large family. Rasih Nuri İleri and his family have expanded so much with marriages that today, everyone from Ziyad Ebüzziya to journalist Umur Talu, from Ali Fuat Cebesoy to Nazım Hikmet, from Atatürk’s childhood friend Fuat Bulca, the president and member of parliament of Hilalî Ahmer. It is located in the middle of a very strong kinship and family ties, from Mehmet Ali Aybar, Ömer Madra to Abidin Dino and many others.Rasih Nuri İleri and his family have expanded so much with marriages that today, everyone from Ziyad Ebüzziya to journalist Umur Talu, from Ali Fuat Cebesoy to Nazım Hikmet, from Atatürk’s childhood friend Fuat Bulca, the president and member of parliament of Hilalî Ahmer. It is located in the middle of a very strong kinship and family ties, from Mehmet Ali Aybar, Ömer Madra to Abidin Dino and many others.Rasih Nuri İleri and his family have expanded so much with marriages that today, everyone from Ziyad Ebüzziya to journalist Umur Talu, from Ali Fuat Cebesoy to Nazım Hikmet, from Atatürk’s childhood friend Fuat Bulca, the president and member of parliament of Hilalî Ahmer. It is located in the middle of a very strong kinship and family ties, from Mehmet Ali Aybar, Ömer Madra to Abidin Dino and many others.
Rasih Nuri İleri is actually the grandson of Abidin Pasha. Abidin Pasha, who was from Preveza, served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for three months in 1880, after being governor of Thessaloniki. Afterwards, he was appointed governor of Adana, then Sivas, Ankara Algeria and Bahri Sefid (including Rhodes, 12 Islands etc. all islands). Abidin Pasha, who was also a masnavi poet, passed away as a result of a heart attack while he was called by the sultan and offered the position of grand vizier during this duty (1906).
When Did Abidin Pasha Died? Dr. Celali YILMAZ The question in the title asks many people, “Who is Abidin Pasha?” or “What is it to us?” It is not surprising that it makes us think of new questions such as: The primary purpose of this study is to answer those questions – even if it cannot fully answer the question in the title. Those who have been there at some point know the Abidin Pasha district in Ankara or Abidin Pasha Street in Adana. Especially, there is almost no one who has not heard the name of artist Abidin Dino. However, it is not known whether these names may have anything in common with the history of the Turkish stock market. “Abidin Pasha”, which they all have in common, is the first Stock Exchange Commissioner and the first stock exchange president in today’s sense, of the Sanjak Bey Bonds Exchange, which can be considered the ancestor of today’s ISE and which started its operations in 1873. Abidin Pasha, who served as governor in various places after his role in the establishment of the Sanjak Bey Tahvilat Borsa, is better known for the works he left in the cities where he served and for his well-established family, which still includes many prominent figures. However, one issue that is not fully agreed upon in the sources that include his biography is the date of Pasha’s death! In our study, we will try to resolve this historical confusion, apart from giving Abidin Pasha’s short biography. ABIDIN PASHA Sanjak Bey (Istanbul) Abidin Bey, the first commissioner of the Bonds Exchange, is stated in the sources containing his biography as “one of the enlightened viziers of the reign of Abdulhamid II” or “a statesman who left his mark with his political, scientific and cultural activities in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire. It is defined with adjectives such as “. Considering that Pasha, in addition to his statesmanship, wrote books and poems, and even attempted to annotate the Mesnevi, it is understood that his literary side was at least as strong as his statesmanship. Abidin Pasha, the son of Ahmet (bin Zeyne’l-Abidin) Dino Bey of Preveza, one of the Albanian notables, and Saliha Hanım, one of the Çapars, was born on 5 Rebiü’l-evvel 1259 3* in the town of Preveza in the province of Ioannina. His date of death is stated as 1906 in some sources and 1908 in others. It is stated in various sources that he died as a result of a heart attack he suffered in Istanbul, Yıldız Palace, during the Yemen Reform talks. Pasha is considered one of the important figures of our recent history, with his kinship relations as well as his bureaucratic duties 5*. The family originates from Alkuşlar and Gazi Turhans, who conquered Anatolia with the Ottomans. He continued to the Balkans and held the administration there for generations 6*. Abidin Pasha, who lost his father at a young age, was given his primary education by his mother. He learned Turkish, Albanian and Serbian from his mother, Saliha Hanım, and Persian from his nanny, Naile Hanım. He could read Turkish and Greek when he was seven years old. He started going to Kaleiçi School at the age of nine. He completed his secondary education at Yanya Greek High School. He learned Greek and French, so he was brought up with both Eastern and Western languages and culture8*.Abidin Pasha started his public service as a Silahşor (palace guard) in 1866. In 1868, he was appointed as the central district governor of Preveza with the additional duty of deputy sanjak governor. Later, Narda District Governorate, Izmir Court of Appeals Second Presidency, Sofia Sanjak Principality, Varna Sanjak Principality, Sancak Bey Bonds Exchange.

He served as Commissar, President of the Military Shipment Commission, Greek Border Commissioner, Diyarbakır-Elazığ and Sivas Provinces First Commissioner for Reform Affairs, Secretary of the Ali Emiri Commission, Governor of Sivas with the title of “Beylerbeyi of Rumelia”, and Governor of Thessaloniki in 1881, the year Atatürk was born. . While in this position, Sultan II. He was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) by Abdulhamid, but he could only stay for three months. Then he became the Governor of Adana. During his four years and nine months in Adana, he worked especially for the improvement of the Seyhan River and the irrigation of the Adana Valley. All that remains of Abidin Pasha in Adana is the Junior High School building – which is now used as Adana Girls’ High School -, the Clock Tower in the Bazaar and Abidin Pasha Street, which was opened at that time. After Adana, he served as governor of Sivas and Ankara. What has survived from his time as governor in Ankara are the Kuruçeşme in Aslanhane Mosque, the Clock Tower in Kaleiçi and his own mansion. Abidin Pasha’s mansion was used by the Central Command for a while, then it was decided to have it restored by Çankaya Municipality and turn it into a museum. The district where the mansion is located was named after Abidin Pasha. In this district, there is a primary school, a high school, an industrial vocational high school and a mosque named after Abidin Pasha. After Ankara, he was appointed governor of Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefîd (Mediterranean Islands).

He remained in this position in Rhodes for 13 years until his death. Shortly before his death, he was summoned to Istanbul to discuss Yemen reforms. Abidin Pasha, who married Gül Hanım, had two sons and two daughters. One of his daughters, Halide Hanım, marries Derviş Pasha, and Nefise Hanım marries Nuri Bey. Nuri Bey is the father of well-known people in the fields of literature, art, politics and law. Member of Parliament and journalist Celal Nuri, cartoonist Sedat Nuri, and journalist and law professor Suphi Nuri are the children of this person. Sedat Bey, one of Abidin Pasha’s sons, had no children. His other son is Abidin Dino’s father, Rasih Bey.
Abidin Pasha’s Greek poems were published in Istanbul and Paris. He translated Masnavi into our language and published the commentary of the first volume. He has a commentary on Kasîde-i Bür and some other religious and Sufi works. “The book he published while he was a stock exchange commissioner is one of the sources that provides valuable information about the first Ottoman debts” 10*. He also prepared how the first and second degree elections would be held, upon the order of the Sultan. 11th*. His grave, along with that of his brother (one of the chief doormen of the Dergah-ı Hümayun) Veysel Pasha (d. 1903), is in the Fatih Mosque graveyard in Istanbul, next to the Gazi Osman Pasha Tomb. Abidin Pasha Tomb, which is remarkable with its architectural style, “in its outline, is connected to the open tombs, which have a deep-rooted tradition in Ottoman architecture, the first examples of which were seen in the reign of Orhan Gazi, but it draws from styles that are completely foreign to each other, such as classical Ottoman, Ancient Greek, Roman and Indo-Islamic.” “With its compiled architectural elements, it reflects the eclectic taste of the period in which it was built” 12*. The work titled “Treatise on Consolidated Air Games and Other İstikrazat-ı Maliyeye”, which is the first comprehensive source work that can be identified regarding the Ottoman securities exchange, was published in 1874, during Abidin Bey’s tenure as Sanjak Governor, Bond Stock Exchange Commissioner. Prof. Abidin Bey’s treatise on the stock market was used for the first time in finance literature. Dr. It was mentioned in an article by Haydar KAZGAN published in the Society and Science magazine in 1977 (with the note that the author could not be identified due to the absence of the first page) and some pages of the treatise were translated into Latin letters13*. Abidin Bey’s book in question briefly addresses two fundamental problems of Turkish financial markets that have not been solved historically: (i) (lack of) trust in financial markets and (ii) public debt (excess) problems14*.
Date of Death of Abidin Pasha: In four of the eight printed 15* sources containing the biography of Abidin Pasha that we examined within the scope of the study, the date of death is stated as “1906” and in the other four as “1908”. It is thought that this situation is due to the error made in one source being repeated exactly in other sources. However, when the year of death was given as 1906 in another recent book, the year 1906 gained weight due to the science of statistics! In order to eliminate the hesitation, Pasha’s tomb in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery was visited, but the number “1324” on the tombstone did not provide the help we hoped for in solving the problem. Because the number “1324” corresponds to the year 1906 according to the Hijri calendar and 1908 according to the Rumi calendar, which were used at that time! I wonder if the number “1324” on Pasha’s tombstone was written according to the Hijri calendar or the Rumi calendar? In order to investigate which date the number “1324” on the Pasha’s tombstone corresponds to according to the calendar we use today, research was carried out on the gravestones of historical figures whose death dates were known in the Fatih Mosque Graveyard, Galata Mevlevihanesi Graveyard, Eyüp Cemeteries and Aşiyan Cemetery, and 1324 (at that time) It has been found out that it was on 9 May 1906). However, our work on the issue continues!
CONCLUSION
Our current knowledge about the Sanjak Bey Bond Exchange, which can be considered the ancestor of the ISE, is very limited. This limitation is to such an extent that there is no clarity even on the birth and death dates of Abidin Pasha, one of the important bureaucrats of the period who took part in the establishment of the first stock exchange. Despite the uncertainty regarding the year of Abidin Pasha’s death, there is no doubt that his date of birth is 5 Rebiü’l-evvel 1259. In fact, in one source, his birth time 16* is given as follows: “…he was born in the city of Preveza on the evening of the twenty-fourth Tuesday of March, that is, on Wednesday night, at four o’clock on Wednesday night, on 5 Rabi al-Awwal 1259 Hijri.” The problem is the calculation of today’s exact equivalent of the date 5 Rabi’ al-awwal 1259, which seems “statistically negligible” considering the short period between the alternatives of 5 March, 24 March, 4 April and 5 April in the examined sources and the two-year difference in the date of death. !
FOOTNOTES
1* In compiling the biographical information in this section, the following sources were mainly used: Zeynep AVCI, A to Z’ye Abidin DINO (Yapı Kredi Publications, 2001), MO BAYRAK, Famous Men Buried in Istanbul 1453-1978, (1979), From Yesterday to Today. Istanbul Encyclopedia, (Ministry of Culture T. History Foundation Joint Publication, 1993), Turkish Encyclopedia (Ministry of National Education Publication, 1946), Turkey Encyclopedia from Tanzimat to the Republic (İletişim Publications 1985), Mahmut ÇETİN, The Tribe in the Bosphorus, (biografi.net, Istanbul 2002), Cemal A. KALYONCU, Hidden Lives (Zaman Kitap 2002, Abdülhamit KIRMIZI, Abdülhamit’s Governors, (Klasik Publications, 2007).

2* His title was “Bey” when he was appointed as Stock Exchange Commissioner and wrote the treatise on Air Games. He later became “Pasha”.
3* There is no consensus on the equivalent of this date in today’s calendar. In one source, the Gregorian equivalent of this date is stated as “March 5, 1843”, and in another source the equivalent of the same date is given as “Tuesday, March 24, 1843”. In our check using the date conversion guide available online (http://193.255.138.2/takvim.asp?takvim=2&gun=5&ay=3&yil=1259), the Gregorian equivalent of the specified Hijri date was found to be Wednesday, April 5, 1843! Another online date conversion site (http://prayer.al-islam.com/convert.asp?l=eng) gives the same date as Tuesday, April 4, 1843! However, compared to the two-year deviation in the date of death, a deviation of approximately one month is considered negligible! 4* Although there is a consensus in the sources that the cause of death was “heart attack”, there are different explanations about the reason for the heart attack. KALYONCU (2002:113) says that the heart attack occurred “at the time when he was called by the sultan and offered the position of Grand Vizier (Prime Minister)”.
5* It is reported that Hıfzı Topuz said about himself, “Istanbul is divided into two: Those who are related to Abidin Pasha and those who are not.” Indeed, the Dino, İleri and Talu families, which include many important names of the Ottoman and Republican periods, are descendants of Abidin Pasha.
6* There are those who think that the fact that the Abidin Pasha family owns a mansion resembling a medieval castle in Liopsi (Yenişehir), which was conquered by Gazi Turhan, is a good proof of the existence of the aristocracy, which was ignored in the Ottoman Empire.
7* Ahmet Dino, from the Albanian dynasty, was exiled to Konya for fear that his close friend Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha would do in Albania what he did in Egypt, and died of plague there. His grave is in the Alaaddin Mosque Cemetery, next to the Alaaddin Tomb.
8* It is written in one source that he also knew Italian (Turkish Encyclopedia (1946) Volume: 1, p. 77).
9* Although he was the person who prepared the first Turkish commentary of Mesnevi, it is stated that Abidin Pasha was not a Mevlevi, but a Halveti, and that he was a member of the late Nureddin Efendi, who was a member of the Merkez Efendi dervish dervish lodge in Istanbul from the Halvetiyye order.
10* Turkish Encyclopedia (1946), Volume: 1, p. 77. The statement on the same subject in the Encyclopedia of Turkey from Tanzimat to the Republic (1985) is as follows: “A book he wrote on Istanbul Stock Exchange transactions was published with the permission of the Ministry of Education.” Considering the content of the book, the style of expression in question gives the feeling that interesting results can be reached when the reactions the book received at the time it was written are examined.
11* Türkiye Encyclopedia from Tanzimat to the Republic (1985), p. 34.
12* Istanbul Encyclopedia from Past to Present (1993), Volume: 1, p. 59.
13* Society and Science, Issue: 2, Spring 1977, pages: 164-170.
14* For a summary of the first part of the book in question, whose full title is ” Treatise on Consolidated Air Games and Other Financial Stability “, see. Celali YILMAZ, Financial Transactions in Sancakbeyi Bonds Exchange, in Istanbul City and Civilization Symposium Proceedings, Classic Publications 2004.
15* Among the references, internet sources, which are generally copies of each other and can be published without any editing process, are not taken into account. Although it is possible to reach “statistically” more meaningful data when the dates in Abidin Pasha’s biographies on the internet are taken into account, it is clear that determining historical truths based on statistical frequency cannot be correct.
16* http://www.mevlanavakfi.com/Content5.asp?m1=1&m2=14&m3=29&m4=10&m5=3
17* It is necessary to take into consideration the possibility that the “four o’clock” mentioned here is a Turkish time, not today’s Turkish time! ————————————————————
Extraction of Water from Abidinpaşa’s Ankara Castle Atpazarı Drinking Water of Old Ankara: Author Şeref Erdoğdu Alkan Matbaacılık Ltd. Ankara 1965 Ministry of Labor Accounting Assistant Manager Ankaram Book. P. 145. Ankara’s fountain water came from three sources. 1) Elmadağ springs: There were two types of water in this mountain. One was spring water, the other was ground water. Today, Ankara benefits from both water sources. The altitude of Elmadağı is between 1300 and 1350 meters. By taking advantage of this, water from this mountain was easily flowed to the city. The main spring waters were Kırkpınar, Beypınarı, Koca Pınar, Zindankaya, Özü Pınar, Kehliz Pınar, Kıpırs Plateau Spring. Regular canals were opened to bring water from the mountain to the city, and water was brought up to the city’s castle vicinity. This organization still exists. Water is a big problem in Ankara, and all governors of the past have not been successful or have not been able to handle this issue seriously because their duties were short-lived. However, Abidinpaşa solved some of the city’s water problems during his 10-year governorship. The work of bringing water through new installations, that is, pipes, was done during the time of the city manager Haydar Bey. 2) Hanım Spring: This water is in Kayaş valley and around Üregil village. This installation was also built during the time of Abidinpaşa and was drained to Cebeci and the lower parts of the city. 3) Kasımlar Water: Since this water was not able to provide water to various parts of the city due to both the amount and the low altitude, the channels of this water were removed when the Elmadağı installation was built. During the time of Ankara governor Abidinpaşa, water was brought to the At Pazarı, the highest place in the city, and a solid masonry fountain with 12 spouts was built. The Elmadağ Fountain made of solid marble was also built in front of the Nakşibendi Madrasah, which was built at the expense of Abidinpaşa. These waters answered the city’s great water problem and revived Ankara. In addition, a pool was built from this water in the Hacıbayram household and water was supplied to various parts of the city. Ankara benefited from this primary water organization until it became the Government Center.
Abidin Pasha’s efforts to bring water to Ankara
While Abidinpaşa had his mansion built in this district, which is still remembered by his name today, he had the meat of a sheep hanged in various districts of Ankara, and at the latest, the meat he had hanged on these ridges smelled, and he had his mansion built on this beautiful and dominant hill. Kadirbilir Ankara residents have preserved his mansion for 80 years, and this mansion is still standing.
Abidin Pasha Fountain
Abidin Pasha Mansion Ankara
Abidinpaşa very much wanted the water to come out to the Atpazar, the engineers only brought the water up to the beginning of the Cebelağası slope and could not get it any higher because the pressure and the level were not suitable. According to the rumor, the Pasha gathered the engineers and ordered that the water should flow from the fountain he had built in front of the Castle for a week, otherwise he would dismiss all of them. and the water was drained a week later with a great ceremony. “An instrument played with good intentions is better than the disciple’s glorification.” The saying belongs to this valuable pasha.