Ornegin Rusya'ya esir dusen ve kurtulduktan sonra Osmanli Devletinde Divan-i Humayun tercumanligina 1782 yilinda tayin edilen Iskerletzade Aleksandir'a muafi yet berati verilmistir (36) ve 1783 yilinin Aralik ayinda gorevi karsiliginda Inebahti sancaginda bulunan ceraciler mukataasi malindan yillik 1675 kurus has maasi tahsis edilmesi hakkinda ilgili mukataa mutasarriflarina hukum yazilmistir.
In the Ain El-Hilweh refugee camp near Saida, images crowd one's mind: Yasser Arafat's keffiyeh, the sign of victory, the plane that never sleeps, Oslo, and the Mukataa being demolished over the symbolic leader.
But his analysis of the timar system and the later mukataa system of tax-farming has the merit of demonstrating that, once beyond the Dinaric range of the Balkans, one is truly outside Europe.
He blockaded Arafat in the Ramallah Mukataa (Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank) and demolished the Fatah infrastructure throughout the occupied territories.