Agah Efendi
Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi was an Ottoman civil servant, writer and newspaper editor who, along with his colleague İbrahim Şinasi, published Tercüman-ı Ahvâl, the first private newspaper by Turkish journalists, and introduced postage stamps to the Ottoman Empire.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.
He is also known as being a member of the Young Ottomans, a reformist secret society that enabled the firsts introduction of a constitutional system to the Empire, resulting in the short-lived First Constitutional Era.
