Right - A 'Star and Crescent' type gorget, similar to the 18th century version, for security officials at the Imperial Court [1].

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[1] Metin Erüretin. (2001) Osmanli Madalyalari ve Nisanlari. [Ottoman medals and orders: documented history]. DMC: 155.

Right - A "Kunan" or “Kauun” (Law Soldiers).

• Represented the Sharia law, and while ordinary enlisted men held an unusually high status in the Ottoman military, and period sources say: “They are a much more respectable force than the civil police or the gendarmes” [1].
• Somewhat incorrectly, the ‘Law Soldiers’ are described as Military Police in most sources. The large brass gorgets the ‘Law Soldiers’ wear are called a “Ferahi”, and have with the word inscribed "Kunun", or "Kunan" or “Kauun”, meaning the law.
• Some versions were also inscribed with the words – “Kanun Neferi”, meaning law soldier.
• The insignia has its origins in the Ottoman court of the 18th Century, and was worn by the Sultan’s security personnel for his court; thus they too act as adjutants to the Sultan, enforcing his laws [2].

Right - WW1 Imperial Army Police: who wear a gorget with the Ottoman script words "inzibat-ı askeri memuru" (military police official) written on it.

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Right - This New York Times article With the Sultan's Army in Asiatic Turkey (1906) contains information on the Ottoman Army penal units. These were soldiers under punishment by wearing fez with the tassel cut-off.