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It is still impossible to talk about any comprehensive work in the academic literature on the foundation of the Ministry of Justice and its development into a genuine Ottoman bureaucracy. Rare studies have been conducted at the graduate and PhD levels but none have been published. Turkish scholars’ indifference to the Ottoman institutional history is paradoxically contrary to the importance given by many other Western scholars to their own institutions’ past. That kind of historical research extends into many European countries, even to the records of medieval institutions such as churches and the first Western universities. Not wonder that such large scale studies can only built on a great collection of data. The period that this paper focuses on is a milestone for major institutional changes of the modern Turkish bureaucracy paving the way for the more radical republican reforms. Through extreme research in the Ottoman archives on the bureaucracy of Ministry of Justice, we will try to expose the connection between the late Ottoman reforms and the Republican era. During the Second Constitutional Era, bureaucrats of the Ministry of Justice gave stimulus to the general reform process of the Sublime Porte and found pragmatic ways to solve the practical daily problems.This paper introduces a comprehensive view from the institutional changes that the Ministry and its bureaucrats had gone through along with the Empire in the pre-World War I period

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