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Department of the Imperial Government responsible for the judicial affairs of the Ottoman Empire
The Ministry of Justice (
French : Ministère de la Justice
[1] ) was the
justice ministry of the
Ottoman Empire , based in
Constantinople (now
Istanbul ). It also served as the Ministry of Religions (
French : Ministère des Cultes ).
[2]
It was established in 1879 as part of a reorganisation of the empire's legal system.
[1] Non-Muslim ecclesiastical authorities relied on the ministry. The ministry took control of the commercial courts and commercial appeal courts from the
Ministry of Commerce .
[2]
Ioannis Vithynos served in the justice ministry as the director of criminal investigations.
[3]
Ministry of Justice (Turkey) currently governs affairs in Turkey.
References
^
a
b Young, George (1905).
Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 1.
Clarendon Press . p.
159 .
^
a
b Young, George (1905).
Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 1.
Clarendon Press . p.
160 . "Il est remarqué que les autorites ecclesiastiques des Communautes non-musulmanes dependent du Ministere de la justice, qui est aussi le Ministere des Cultes."
^ Strauss, Johann (2010). "A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire: Translations of the Kanun-ı Esasi and Other Official Texts into Minority Languages". In Herzog, Christoph; Malek Sharif (eds.).
The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy .
Wurzburg . pp. 21–51. {{
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