Career
Ahmed Midhat Efendi took its name from Ahmed Midhat Pasha, as he worked for a time as an official and newspaper editor in Midhat Pasha"s Vilayet of the Danube. Politically, his orientation was more conservative, compared to writers such as Namık Kemal. From 1878 on, he published the newspaper Tercüman-ı Hakikat (Interpreter of Truth).