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This fond contains documents reflecting Rıza Tevfik's world of thought, the political events of his time, intellectual movements, and his relations with his environment and the world. Covering the years 1856-1997, the collection is organized in 32 folders and 921 files. It contains 3,998 documents of 12,978 pages, including correspondence with important people and institutions in Turkey and around the world, as well as manuscripts, photographs and newspaper clippings. The fond, which sheds light on the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic, is a valuable source for research on this period.

The Tercüman Newspaper Archive contains manuscripts (handwritten texts) from the Ottoman period and the early years of the Republic, including literary, historical, and mystical texts and works, as well as theater works, which have been transferred to Tercüman Newspaper Publications.
Literary works, poetry books, novels, essays, memoirs; historical documents, military histories, official documents (memoranda, dispatches, foundation and expense ledgers); Sufi works and texts focusing on topics such as wahdat al-wujud, tawhid, and stages of spiritual development; and works on Ottoman and early Turkish theater form the core content of the collection.
In addition, the archive also contains notebooks containing works and correspondence written in the handwriting of well-known figures in society. One of the most prominent sections of the collection consists of personal notebooks and letters belonging to the Sabri Kalkandelen family.
Some of these handwritten notebooks have been published, some have been published but are rare copies, and some have never been published.

Timur Kocaoğlu (1947-), a Turkish historian and political scientist of Uzbek origin, was the first Uzbek scholar to defend his doctoral dissertation at Colombia University. The document was sent to ISAM as a donation by Kocaoğlu along with some books from the United States of America.
The collection features items dated between 1968 and 2019 and is categorized in 11 folders and 168 files. It contains many academic studies, personal correspondence, and documents belonging to Timur Kocaoğlu. The prominent documents in the collection include: notebooks containing poems, stories, and plays written in the handwriting of Dr. Captain Şerafeddin Bey, a martyr of the War of Independence; letters written by Şerafeddin Bey to his wife Hasine Hanım, his brother, poet Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, and his father; Ottoman postcards; photocopies of correspondence between Timur Kocaoğlu’s father Osman Kocaoğlu and Kazakh political leaders Mustafa Çokay and Ahmet Zeki Velidi Togan.

The Veysel Pasha Papers belong to Veysel Pasha (1866-1892) and his son Ali Rıza Pasha (1901-1923), who were among the last of the Ottoman State’s Grand Mushirs. The collection consists of correspondence regarding their administrative, military, and political activities in the regions of Manastir, Prizren, Yakova, Ipek, and Kosovo in the Balkans, as well as their personal affairs. The collection, dating from 1866 to 1923, is organized in 141 documents, one folder and 85 files.

It contains the correspondence between Yusuf İzzeddin Efendi's wives, children, Tevfik Biren, and his wife Necla Biren, as well as receipts showing their expenses. The fond consists of 4.048 documents (1,330 files) and covers topics such as the distribution of income among family members, expenses incurred, and the management of property.