General Directorate of Public Safety

Documents from the Ministry of Interior of the Ottoman Empire

General Directorate of Public Safety

Held by Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)

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Reference	TR-BOA/DH/EUM/ADL
Title	General Directorate of Public Safety
Dates	1914-01-01-1919-12-31
Dates Start	1914-01-01
Dates End	1919-12-31
Level of description	Subseries
Extend and medium	Global extent : 1991 files; 44 selected and described files

Context area

Repository	Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)
Name of creator(s)	Ministry of Interior of the Ottoman Empire (DH)

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Description

This catalogue includes tables of general crimes and criminal statistics as well as procedures about those who were treated as suspicious, crimes like fraud, pickpocketing, files about criminals involved into these crimes, the chasing and arresting of fugitives and about the sending of the unemployed, vagabonds and beggars to their homelands or proper regions, as well as the lists of weapons seized from the public.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1333-1338.

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Sources

http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/general-directorate-of-public-safety

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Fonds - 1 : Documents from the Ministry of Interior of the Ottoman Empire

Identity area

Reference	TR-BOA/DH
Title	Documents from the Ministry of Interior of the Ottoman Empire
Covering dates	1820-01-01-1924-12-31
Dates Start	1820-01-01
Dates End	1924-12-31
Level of description	Fonds
Extend and medium	2143 selected and described items (2698 descriptions in the xls inventory)

Context area

Repository	Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)
Name of creator(s)	Ministry of Interior of the Ottoman Empire (DH)

Conditions of access and use

Conditions governing access

Subject to the authorization of Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)

Catalogue references area

Rules or conventions	International standard for archival description, General, etc.
Date of the catalogue	February 2018
Archivist's notes	Author(s) : Yasemin Avci, Katerina Stathi
Sources	http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/documents-from-the-ministry-of-interior-of-the-ottoman-empire

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Fonds - 1 : Documents from the Ministry of Interior of the Ottoman Empire