Abstract:
Evliya Celebi was born in İstanbul in the year 1611 to a family of Kutahya origin.His father Mehmet Zilli Efendi was the head of goldsmiths in the palace, and thus Celebi was grown up around the palace, educated at Enderun, which was then areally significant educational centre. He was accepted to the presence of the Sultan Murat IV., and then assigned at the Kilar-i Has. He was a well educated and intellectual Ottoman man. From the early ages of his life, he has got a passion for traveling and searched opportunities to do it. He succeeded it by traveling together with the chamberlain Mehmed and Ipsir Mustafa Pasa. They were high classimperial officers and were from the Melek Ahmed Pasa family. Then he continue dhis travels by undertaking various official responsibilities.
