Çapanzade Agah Efendi

Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (March 31, 1832 – January 2, 1886) was an Ottoman Turkish civil servant, writer and newspaper editor. Along with his colleague İbrahim Şinasi, he published Tercüman-ı Ahvâl ("Interpreter of Events"), the first private newspaper produced by Turkish journalists, and introduced postage stamps to the Ottoman Empire.

Biography Agah Efendi was born in the Ottoman capital Constantinople to Çapanzade Ömer Hulûsi Efendi. He was educated in Constantinople, in the .

He is also known as being a member of the Young Ottomans, a reformist secret society that enabled the first introduction of a constitutional system to the Empire, resulting in the short-lived First Constitutional Era.