The Translation Office (Turkish: Tercüme Odası, also spelled Terceme Odası,[1] or Terdjuman Odasi; French: Direction de Traduction,[2] also rendered as Bureau des Interprètes[3] or Cabinet des Traducteurs[4]) was an organ of the Government of the Ottoman Empire that translated documents from one language to another.
The government created it in 1821 as the Ottoman authorities wanted to train their own corps of Turkish translators instead of using Phanariotes due to the Greek War of Independence occurring. Most of the staff at Ottoman diplomatic missions in Europe originated from this office.[5]
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^Ernest Lavisse; Alfred Rambaud, eds. (1899). Histoiree générale du IVe siècle à nos jours: Révolutions et guerres nationales, 1848-1870. Vol. XI. Paris: Armeand Colin & Cie. pp. 535-536.
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