Özet:

Water, undoubtfully has a vital importance in human life. Human being hasspent great effort for transporting water to the place where he lived and settled.Therefore, working s carried out by state employees who were generally named as water transporter and water transporters were in great importance. As it is today, in Ottoman period İstanbul was a very important center for settlemenL İstanbul has been a political, military and commercial attractive center with hom connecting Europe to Asia, with seas surruonding the city four sides and with culture and civilisations took place during the history. Ottomans constructed a lot of water systems to bring water to İstanbuL. İn a'period of time, as a result of population increase, there was an increase in the number of workers employed in this sector. This job, generally named as water transporter, was organised under the Ministry of Waterway. But, when 19th century was reached, people who worked at water works displayed illicit and immoral behaviour such as abusiveness, bribery and favoritism. In this research, the unlawful behaviours of this water transporters were analysed.

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