Pictured Margarethe Fehim Pascha Postcard | Divided back. Written on back and posted from Barcelona on 1 March 1908. 10 cents Spanish stamp affixed. 
Report to Interior Ministry on the sale of Margarethe Fehim Pascha Postcards by Matbaalar Sermüfettişi (press inspector) Şemseddin Bey. He reports that cards were sold in a store in Sirkeci district across the Mariçe Hotel. A request was letter made to the Interior Ministry requesting an order to confiscate the cards.
As the sample card from an auction shows that they are so wide spread that one was mailed from Barcelona in 1908 and Wittenberg, Germany in 1909 'Schauspielerin Margarethe Fehim-Pascha lächelnd mit Blumen in der Hand'.
Mavi Boncuk |
SOURCE Tarih yazıları blog by Sinan Çuluk (Ottoman State Archives, Istanbul)
Fî 12 Muharrem sene 325 ve fî 12 Şubat sene 322 [25 February 1907]
BABIALİ
NEZARET-İ CELİLE-İ DAHİLİYE[1]
İdare-i Matbuat
Aded
951
Bir kadın resmini ve bâlâsında Fransızca «Margrit Fehim Paşa» ibaresini hâvî muhtelif vaziyette altı adet kartpostal Sirkeci’de Mariçe Oteli karşısında kartpostal satan bir dükkanda görülerek mübayaa edildiği idare-i âcizî Matbaalar Sermüfettişi Şemseddin Bey tarafından verilen raporda beyan ve ifade kılınmış ve alelusul idâre-i âcizîde hıfz edilmiş olmağla bunların füruhtuna meydan verdirilmemesi ve mevcutlarının hemen toplatılması esbabının istikmali lüzumunun Zabtiye Nezaret-i Celilesi’ne emr u iş΄âr buyurulması bâbında emr u fermân hazret-i men-lehü’l-emrindir.
Fî 12 Muharrem sene 325 ve fî 12 Şubat sene 322 [25 Şubat 1907]
Matbuat-ı Dahiliye Müdürü
bende
Kemal
[1] Interior Minister[*] was Mehmed Faik Memduh Paşa (1896-1907). The Minister (government) (tr: Nazır) had not as much influence over the sultans as the viziers, but controlled the Ministry (government department) (tr: Nezareti). The ministries and departments were important parts of the Ottoman bureaucracy. The ministries also supplied the viziers with whatever information they required.
The most important minister was the Minister of Justice, the Adliye Nazırı, whose ministry included the civil judges (kadis) and the military judges (Qadi 'askers, kadiaskers or kaziaskers) who were the highest judicial authority of the Empire after the seyhulislam, the supreme religious leader of the ulema. Other officials within a ministry included the Kethüdar, a representative of the ministry and assistant to the minister with several clerks (kalfas) under him. The kalfas did all the paperwork in the Ottoman bureaucracy.
During the following years The Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire structure was created during the Second Constitutional Era. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) was in power between 1908 and 1918. In this period, most of the ministers were also from the CUP.
[*] The term minister comes from Middle English, deriving from the Old French word ministre, originally minister in Latin, meaning "servant, attendant", which itself was derived from the word 'minus' meaning "less".
The most important minister was the Minister of Justice, the Adliye Nazırı, whose ministry included the civil judges (kadis) and the military judges (Qadi 'askers, kadiaskers or kaziaskers) who were the highest judicial authority of the Empire after the seyhulislam, the supreme religious leader of the ulema. Other officials within a ministry included the Kethüdar, a representative of the ministry and assistant to the minister with several clerks (kalfas) under him. The kalfas did all the paperwork in the Ottoman bureaucracy.
During the following years The Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire structure was created during the Second Constitutional Era. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) was in power between 1908 and 1918. In this period, most of the ministers were also from the CUP.
[*] The term minister comes from Middle English, deriving from the Old French word ministre, originally minister in Latin, meaning "servant, attendant", which itself was derived from the word 'minus' meaning "less".