Infographics from Turkey’s official journal of the Ministry of Justice before the alphabet reform

Posted by qernanded

16 Comments

  1. When they used to use Arabic alphabets and Indian numerals. Now it’s vice versa except they use latin alphabets this time. Looks astonishing nonetheless

  2. Neutral-President on

    These are beautiful. Can you tell us more about the source of these, and what data are represented?

  3. HungryLobster257 on

    Turkish makes so much more sense in the Arabic transcript. Also this level of data visualization in 1340 is remarkable!

  4. TheFinalCurl on

    Looks like most of these are drawn by the same person. If so, we need a bio cause hot damn

  5. I’m working with Claude to translate each page. over the next few hours.

    **Page 1** is the cover of the issue:

    Year 3, Issue 30. January 1341 (= January 1925). Cerîde-i Adliyye

    The text around the circle is:
    *Müstakil Cinayet Dairesi’nin Mahâkimi*
    “Centers of the Independent Criminal Divisions/Departments”

    The red text above the data table reads:
    *senesinin Mayısından itibaren müstakil cinayet mahkemelerinde faaliyet*
    “Activity in the independent criminal courts from May of the year 1340”

    The table below is the number of cases processed by criminal courts in different cities and provinces

  6. Fancy-Sherbet8787 on

    No wonder they were “the sick man of Europe”. I’d also be sick. Sick of looking at that gorgeous data, am I right?

  7. Really cool stuff. Working with computers to plot data has really limited our imaginations