EVALUAT？ON OF MEHMED ？R？F'S OP？N？ONS ON THE COURT OF APPEAL ？N THE CONTEXT OF ART？CLE NAMED "TENS？K？T-I ADL？YYE: MAHKEME-？ TEMY？Z"

The Tanzimat period in the Ottoman Empire was a period of innovations in the courts. In this period, besides the laws quoted by foreign countries, some special courts such as the Commercial Courts started to be established. In the classical Ottoman jurisdiction, while the sharia courts were in the foreground, during the Tanzimat period, the courts began to differentiate according to their duties. The Constitutional period was a period when various reforms were made in the court area. In our work, the article "Tens？kat-？ Adliyye: Mahkeme-i Temy？z" published on 13 October 1909 in Ilm-i Huk？k and Mukayese-i Kavan？n Journal, where the opinions about the Court of Appeal of Gümülcine deputy Mehmed ？rif who has a jurist identification in, has been studied. The aim of the study is to express the article written in Ottoman Turkish with the Latin letters and to gain it to the contemporary Turkish and to reveal the legal problems of the period. As a matter of fact, it seems that in the article was refered to the problems of the period in the field of appeal. In addition to this, brief information is given about the process of appearance of the Court of Appeal and the related article writer