Ottoman-British Relations
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Recent papers in Ottoman-British Relations
Introduction to a special section in Osmanlı Araştırmaları / The Journal of Ottoman Studies, issue 48 (2016) on Ottoman-European diplomacy, 1500-1800, the result of a workshop held at the University of St Andrews in 2014.
İngiltere’nin Osmanlı Devleti ile ilk diplomatik ilişkileri 16. Yüzyılda başlar. Kraliçe Elizabet, William Harborne’u 1582 yılında Türkiye elçisi olarak atadı. İngiltere ve Osmanlı Devleti arasında başlayan siyasi ilişkilerin temel amacı... more
1894 Sason ayaklanması, İngiltere'de Liberal Parti tarafından büyük bir ajitasyona dönüştürüldü. Ermenilerin katledildiğine dair propagandalar yapılmaya başlandı. Bu kara propagandaların gerçek dışı olduğu Sir Ashmead Bartlett tarafından... more
Abstract  This article examines the hitherto unexamined Ottoman Turkish text of the Capitulations granted to the British in 1641. As well as containing the articles governing Ottoman-British trade and diplomatic jurisdiction, the... more
The British Embassy in Istanbul was unique among other diplomatic missions in the long eighteenth century in being financed by a private commercial monopoly, the Levant Company. In this detailed study, Michael Talbot shows how the... more
ÖZET XVI. yüzyılın sonlarında ticari gayelerle tesis edilen Osmanlı-İngiliz ilişkileri, 1580 yılında bahşedilen ahidnâmenin yürürlüğe girmesi ile birlikte resmi bir hüviyet kazandı. Ayrıca Osmanlı ülkesinde yürütülecek faaliyetlerin bir... more
This short article, written the week of the Scottish independence referendum, discusses links between Muslims in Scotland / Scottish Muslims and the Ottoman Empire at the start of the 20th century. In particular, it examines the story of... more
Access to the Ottoman sultans was highly regulated in terms of both space and ceremonial. This was particularly true in the case of ambassadors arriving from foreign states to present their credentials at the centre of imperial life,... more
This article examines the body of takrirs ¬– written representations – from the British ambassadors in Istanbul to the Ottoman government in the mid- and late eighteenth century, aiming to place these diplomatic representations within the... more
Gift-giving was a crucial part of the regulation and practice of relations between European ambassadors and Ottoman state officials in Istanbul. Although largely dominated by textiles, timepieces played a crucial role in gift-giving... more
Öz 18. yüzyılda İngiltere'nin Haleb-Londra hattında gerçekleştirilen Doğu Akdeniz ticareti İskenderun'daki, İngiliz liman temsilcisi tarafından organize edilmiştir. Liman temsilcisi, limandaki İngiliz gemilerinin yükleme ve boşaltma... more
Review of British–Ottoman relations, 1661–1807: commerce and diplomatic practice in eighteenth century Istanbul
by Michael Talbot, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2017, xiii + 256 pp., £70 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 78327 202 0
by Michael Talbot, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2017, xiii + 256 pp., £70 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 78327 202 0
It analyzes the flows of commodities, routes and channels of infromation that linked the maritime mediterranean world of the ottoman empire in the 1700s and its links to Western and Atlantic Mediterranean economies and markets. It also... more
The English Empire was a rising mercantilist star at the late 16 th century. English merchants were traveling through the world to market their infamous English cloth, wool, tin and gunpowder in return of Oriental luxuries as well as... more
Using archival documents in the Ottoman archives related to British travellers in the Ottoman empire who were travelling under the protection of the capitulations, this article examines the yol emri (travel permit) issued to travellers by... more
Relations between Scotland and the Ottoman Empire have not received very much attention in the historiography, but Scots had long played a key role in the British Levant trade throughout the eighteenth century and earlier. In the... more
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Much has been written about the wave of Pan-Islamism through the years of the 18 th century, but an inquiry into why a consul of the Ottoman Empire decided to visit Qadian-a small town of the undivided Punjab-is an issue that asks for a... more
During the second half of the 19th century a heavy transformation of the urban layout of Constantinople was promoted by the Ottoman government; in order to fulfil this plan several monuments of the byzantine and ottoman past were... more
The use of the term 'diplomacy' in the early modern relations is perhaps problematic. Rather, following the example of Franç ois de Callières, it is perhaps better to think of these interactions in terms of negotiations and négociateurs.... more
The capitulations were one of the most central and long lasting problematiques of the history of the Ottoman economy, which covers a great span of Ottoman history from the very inception of notable a international trade on the Ottoman... more
İngiliz Levant Company üyesi tüccarlar İngiliz konsoloslarının himayesi altında İskenderun’da birer liman temsilcisi/konsolos vekili bulundurarak limandaki ticari faaliyetlerini organize etmişlerdir. Liman temsilcisi limandaki İngiliz... more
This chapter investigates the impact of British privateering on Ottoman maritime territoriality from 1690 to 1790 to examine the discourse concerning rule over the sea on the part of the Ottoman state. It examines the theoretical... more
Transkripsiyon ve Değerlendirme (Transcription)
This one-day international roundtable exploring the practice of European-Ottoman diplomacy in the early modern period will be held at the University of St Andrews on 24 June 2014. The roundtable will seek to address questions of... more
II. Abdülhamid döneminde muhacir meselesi Osmanlı Devleti’ni meşgul eden önemli sorunlardan biriydi. Osmanlı topraklarına göç edenlerden bir kısmını da Afgan muhacirleri oluşturmaktaydı. II. Abdülhamid döneminde Afgan göçlerinin başlıca... more
This paper examined the idea of friendship in the Capitulations granted by the Ottoman state to the British in 1641. In particular, it examined how narrative tropes of friendship, combined with gift-giving and ceremonial, present an... more
The distinction between the "diplomatic" and "consular" functions of early modern embassies was not always apparent. With merchants the main species of subject abroad, and commercial interest a crucial factor in bilateral relations, it is... more