The Ministry of Justice (Ottoman Turkish: عدليه نظارتی; Turkish: Adliyye Nezâreti) was the justice ministry of the Ottoman Empire, based in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
[1] It was established in 1879 as part of a reorganisation of the empire's legal system.
[2] Non-Muslim ecclesiastical authorities relied on the ministry.
The ministry took control of the commercial courts and commercial appeal courts from the Ministry of Commerce.
[1] By 1900, the Ministry of Justice included the following high courts:[3] The ministry was responsible for administering secular Nizamiye courts, training judges, and supervizing secular legal education.