From left to right (Bash Kara-Koulloukchou, 2 Kara Kouloulchou, Orta Sakasi)
These were the head orderlies of the Janissary Officers in the Companies and Battalions. Their rank was the equivalent of Junior Sergeant and they were the Orderlies of the Colonel of Janissaries and Military Policemen.
Kara Koulloukchou (Sergeants)
Junior sergeants of the Janissary Corps who were Orderlies
of the Chorbadjis (Colonel) and Military Policemen. They were chosen from
the Adjemi-Oghlans (conscript boys chosen and brought up to join the Janissaries)
and employed to provide room service. The new recruits were paid two golden
coins called duzen-akchesi. Their duties were to clean the rooms, to clean
the shoes of fellow Janissaries and their guests, to wash up dishes, chop
wood, shopping, etc. Some orderlies carried out the tasks of bodyguard
and horse-keeper to the Colonel of the Janissaries.
Orta Sakasi (Water-carrier for the Janissary Corps)
They provided water for the Janissary Corps. Orta
meant Battalion and Sakka, the origin of Sakasi, meant water-carrier.
In the reign of Sultan Mahmoud the Second, when reforms were being made,
the name of the water carriers was changed to Sebildji which means "man
who distributes water free of charge." There was a water carrier
in the Imperial Palace, their leader being called Saka Bashi (Chief Water
Carrier).