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The period Naim focuses on in this book was one of transition from empire to nation. It was marked by a struggle between the men of the old order and a new generation, described as the ‘Young Turks’, men who were determined to drag the... more
Along with the reforms of the Tanzimat, in order stop the decline of the Empire, Ottoman statesmen of the time developed new form of national identity (namely Ottomanism) that would include the Christian elements of the Imperial... more
THIS book first appeared in 1962. It was the product of a suspicion that the story of the nineteenth-century reform movement in Turkey, which one could retrieve in the work of Turkish historians of the 1950s provided us only with the... more
Title: The British Approach Towards the Young Turkish Revolution of 1908. The Ottoman Empire suffered from the nationalist movements that prevailed throughout the 19th century. During this period, the Ottoman minorities became an... more
The book is composed of the presentations in the symposium held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Sultan Abdulhamid II, in Istanbul. Other papers in the book are focused on the topics of Politics, Economy, Foreign... more
Sultan Abdülaziz’in döneminin en göze çarpan özelliklerinden birisi özel basının ortaya çıkmış ve yayılmış olmasıdır. 1860’dan itibaren açılmaya başlanan özel gazeteler ve dergiler, İstanbul’da büyük ölçekte kamu oyu oluşturmuş, siyasi... more
ÖZ Halk kavramının kullanımı hem XIX. yüzyıl Avrupa'sında hem de Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda çeşitli aşamalardan geçmiştir. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda kavramın içerik ve kullanımı Tanzimat Fermanı'nı takip eden dönemlerde önemli bir biçimde... more
The paper briefly analyzes the main aspects of the interest in Ottoman agenda in the Russian intellectual environment during the 19–20th centuries. It pays attention to the Orientalist nature of this interest and its interrelation to the... more
Contrary to the general tendency in intellectual history, where a past intellectual is usually portrayed as having a coherent thought system with minor deviations, there are various and even contradictory depictions of Ali Suavi. He was a... more
The nineteenth-century Ottoman state occupies an ambiguous place in modern world history as both an imperial power and an object of European imperial designs, fueling a corresponding ambivalence toward Ottoman authors in the history of... more
Nagihan Gür (2018), "The reading processes of a Scottish Ottomanist: E. J. W. Gibb and his young Ottoman sources", Middle Eastern Literatures, 21:2-3, 171-205
This article examines the interests of the Ottoman Turks in the Central Asian region in the geopolitical system of the XIX century, in particular, trade, economic and diplomatic relations with the Bukhara emirate, Khiva and the Kokand... more
The Young Ottomans were a secret community (est. 1865) that consisted of men of literature, journalists and activists, and aimed at transforming the Ottoman Empire into a liberal constitutional monarchy by establishing a parliament. They... more