ÃÂapanzade or ÃÂapanoÃÂlu Agah Efendi (March 31, 1832 â January 2, 1886) was an Ottoman Turkish civil servant, writer and newspaper editor who, along with his colleague ðbrahim à Âinasi, published Tercüman-ñ Ahvâl ("Interpreter of Events"), the first private newspaper by Turkish journalists, and introduced postage stamps to the Ottoman Empire.
Agah Efendi was born in Constantinople and his father's name was ÃÂapanzade ÃÂmer Hulûsi Efendi. He was educated in the Ottoman capital of 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.