Mehmed Bahaeddin Bey

Mehmed Bahaeddin Bey, whose date of birth has not been identified, was the son of Ispartalı Abdülkerim Efendi, former Molla of Mecca.

Mehmed Bahaeddin Bey was one of the senior clerks of the Criminal Affairs Office of the Ministry of Justice. After the Tanzimat, the Ministry of Justice became the central institution of the Ottoman judicial organization; the Criminal Affairs Office was one of the units dealing with criminal matters, convicts, and petitions and correspondence in this field.

The term “hulefa” referred to the experienced clerical group working in writing and procedural affairs in the offices of ministries. Mehmed Bahaeddin Bey’s duty places him among the office officials concerned with criminal affairs in the late Ottoman judicial bureaucracy.

Mehmed Bahaeddin Bey died on 6 Shawwal 1323, corresponding to 4 December 1905, and was buried in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery.