Yıldız Intelligence Agency

Internal and external incidents that developed and took place during Abdul Hamid's reign prompted him to establish an intelligence agency directly subordinate to him.

Abdul Hamid closely followed people and institutions in various centers such as Paris, New Delhi, Vienna, Rome, Dubrovnik, Geneva, Cairo, Brussels and London, among many other cities.

[2] Thanks to his agents, spies and detectives, who spread over the world in a very short time, more than 3000 intelligence reports and journals were arriving to the Yıldız palace every month.

[3] The intelligence agency was formed also with the aim of ensuring the continued house arrest of the deposed sultan Murad V in Çırağan Palace.

As a result of this, the people of the Empire were constantly skeptical and suspicious of each other, including state officials and ministers who refused to befriend each other.