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Arzuhalcilik emerged as a profession involving the drafting of arzuhaller, documents through which the public conveyed their requests, complaints, and petitions to authoritative bodies, particularly during the Ottoman period. The term derives from the Persian phrase “arz-ı hâl” (statement of condition), which gradually became widespread in Ottoman Turkish as “arzuhal” and acquired a meaning parallel to the modern concept of “dilekçe” (petition). Arzuhalciler served as the voice of the people, wo