XIX. YÜZYIL SONLARINDA VE XX. YÜZYIL BAŞLARINDA DERSİM’DE HABERLEŞME ARAÇLARININ KULLANIMI VE ASAYİŞ
THE USE OF COMMUNICATION TOOLS AND PUBLIC ORDER IN DERSIM IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: The Ottoman Empire established the range-messenger system to enable the center to communicate with the provinces. In 1840, the range and postal organization were used together after having established the postal organization. During the Crimean War, a telegraph line was also established. In addition to the postal organization, telegraph was used in the communication. The telegraph line reached Sivas, Elazığ and Diyarbakır in 1860. This innovation facilitated administrative functioning by improving communication. With this method, the state started to reach the eastern provinces, which also included Dersim (Tunceli), more rapidly, and this contributed to the domination of central authority. In the second half of the 19th century, the postal transport and telegraph lines were partially used in the southern subprovinces of Dersim (Tunceli) Sanjak of the province of Ma’muratul-aziz (Elazığ). In the so-called Interior Dersim, feudal tribal formation was effective. The bandits of the tribes caused constantly security problems by attacking the surrounding towns and villages. Due to the public order problem, there was no postal transportation in Interior and Eastern Dersim. In the 1890s ın order to make its authority dominant and communicate with the military units, the state installed telegraph lines to some parts of Interior and Eastern Dersim.

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