Ali Haydar Bey

Judging by his age at death, Ali Haydar Bey was born around 1889. He was the son of Nâfiz Bey and the grandson of Hacı İhsan Bey, who served as president of the Sixth Municipal District, and of Said Bey, who served as governor of Çatalca Sanjak.

Hacı İhsan Bey served as president of the Sixth Municipal District between 1909 and 1911. The Sixth Municipal District was one of the important administrative structures through which modern municipal practices developed around Beyoğlu and Galata.

Ali Haydar Bey’s other grandfather, Said Bey, served as governor of Çatalca Sanjak in the final years of Sultan Abdülhamid II’s reign. Çatalca was organized in the late nineteenth century as an independent sanjak west of Istanbul, and Said Bey served in the administration of this sanjak after 1907.

Ali Haydar Bey was one of the clerks of the Salt Department of the Public Debt Administration. The Düyûn-ı Umûmiye Administration was the financial organization established to pay the Ottoman foreign debts and collect certain state revenues; salt revenues were among the important revenue items of this administration.

Ali Haydar Bey, who also had a brother named Cemâleddin Bey in the family circle, died on 10 Kânunuevvel 1329, corresponding to 23 December 1913, when he was only twenty-four years old, and was buried in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery.