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Abdullah Çakmak The city of Jerusalem, which is considered sacred by Muslims, Christians and Jews, dates back to BC. It has an ancient history dating back to the 4000s. The dominance of states belonging to these religions in Jerusalem for different periods paved the way for the formation of holy places belonging to three religions in the city.
Various zoning activities carried out by the state in Jerusalem, which came under Ottoman rule in 1517, increased the quality of life of the city. One of the breaking points for Jerusalem in this period of domination that lasted until 1917 was the process that started with the French occupation of Egypt in 1798 and continued until the end of the Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha rebellion in 1841. The emergence of the troubles in different parts of the state, such as the Wahhabi and Greek rebellions, in this time period, caused Jerusalem to be indirectly affected by these events, since it hosted different nations together.
In this study, which deals with the policy of the Ottoman Empire in Jerusalem between 1798-1841, the political events and administrative changes, the prominent activities in the approach of the state to Muslims, the rights granted by the state to non-Muslims and the ways of communication of the people with the state are examined.
Anar Somuncuoğlu, Ayşe Çolpan Yaldız, Çınar Özen, Erel Tellal, Erkin Ekrem, Fırat Yaldız, Hatice Yazgan, Işık Kuşçu Bonnenfant, Mustafa Aydın, Sabir Askeroğlu In the 30th Anniversary of their Independence, the Turkic Republics book series has emerged as a result of the valuable efforts of expert writers. In this three-book series, the 30-year journey of the Turkic Republics was analyzed thematically and holistically, not through states but over subjects. As a matter of fact, there was a need to analyze the Turkic Republics on a national, regional and global scale in terms of temporal and spatial context, both in Turkey and in Turkish. In this first book of the Turkish Republics in the 30th Anniversary of Independence book series titled National Politics; “National Identities and Social Structure”, “Understanding and Explaining the Transition, Change and Transformation Processes of Turkic Republics”, “Macro-Economic Structure and Sectoral Analysis of Turkic Republics”, “Migration from Past to Present in Relations between Turkey and Turkic Republics”, “Turkish There are "Religion in the Turkish Republics", "Media in the Turkic Republics" and "Tourism in the Turkic Republics" sections. With the Introduction and Conclusion sections of the book, National Policy gets a holistic framework.
The book series of Turkic Republics in the 30th Anniversary of their Independence is a contemporary contribution to the literature on the Turkic Republics… Arousing curiosity and excitement in young researchers, encouraging new studies… Contributing to the future of the Turkic Republics, their role in the global system, 50th and 100th anniversary in the hope…
Murat Özden Uluç The 48th Regiment is a Turkish Union that fought heroically from 1912, when it was founded under the reconstructed Macedonian Vardar Army, until Hatay's reunification with the homeland. Especially in the wars he participated in between 1912-1921, he achieved successes that almost changed the course of Turkish history. In the Soroviç Victory, which was the last battle won in the Macedonian Front, in the repulsing of the Anzac troops on the Anafartalar, Chunuk Bairı and Kanlısırt fronts in Çanakkale, the Palestine Front I and II. He played a major role in the successes won against the Great British Army in the Battles of Gaza.
III. The 48th Regiment, which was abolished after most of its soldiers were captured by the British Army in the Battle of Gaza, was re-established under the Central Army of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey during the National Struggle. He is one of our troops, whose arrival at the front in the Battle of Sakarya was celebrated by the Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha with a telegram of joy and thanks. This heroic regiment of ours changed the fate of the war with their resistance on the Beylikköprü-Beştepeler defense line, which was one of the most critical points of the Sakarya Pitched Battle, at the expense of the almost complete destruction of the regiment. The 48th Regiment is also the regiment of heroic soldiers who had the honor of being the first Turkish Union to enter Hatay after years of joining the homeland of Hatay, and as a result of all these victories, it has become a symbol of national courage and resistance in Turkish history with the medals affixed to its flag.
Abdrasul İsakov, Ahmet Kanlıdere, Dinçer Koç, Erhan Aktaş, Giray Saynur Derman, Güljanat Kurmangalıyeva Ercilasun, İlyas Kemaloğlu, Konuralp Ercilasun, Mehmet Demiryürek, Murat Özkan, Nuri Kavak, Ömer Metin, Ramin Sadıgov, Sadık Müfit Bilge, Şenay Yanar The Turkish World has an important place in the world agenda as a reality that is of interest, needs to be taken into account and preserves its importance today as it was in the past. Being at the center of the world's transportation, energy and trade corridor, it has been in the focus of attention of global powers for a long time. During the 19th and 20th centuries, most of the communities and peoples that make up the Turkish World remained in captivity; even today, some of them still cannot lead an independent life, however, they protect their own identity by protecting their national and religious values. In this context, with this third book of our series, which reveals our 4000 years of Turkish history, titled "Contemporary Turkish World", we have visited Turkestan, Siberia, Idil-Ural, Crimea, Caucasus, Iran, the Balkans, the Middle East and Cyprus from the 1850s to 2020. As we examined the Turkish presence in Turkey, we also tried to reveal the policies of the countries that have a say in the world, as well as Turkey, towards the Turkish World and how they perceive this world.
Although the book was prepared especially for university students, it has become a book that can be used by those who are interested in the subject, who want to have basic knowledge and who want to learn about the approaches of world power centers towards the Turkish World. Hope it is useful…
Fatma Uygur Edouard Antoine Thouvenel, who came to the Ottoman lands first as a traveler and then as a French ambassador (1855-1860), contributed to the preparation process of the Reform Edict as the father of the French thesis. In addition, by personally participating in the activities with other diplomats, he fulfilled a mission that recorded the influence of France in the Ottoman Empire. Indeed, Istanbul was at the center of alliances or conflicts between all state institutions and organizations and Western states. During this period, the most experienced, well-equipped and cunning diplomats of France, England and Russia served in Istanbul and there was a fierce struggle between them. Although he was at odds with the British ambassador Lord Stratford and the Russian ambassador General Ignatyf, who conducted diplomacy with different methods, Thouvenel successfully conducted the negotiations on behalf of France.
Thouvenel was in constant contact with the Sublime Porte and Abdülmecid. In line with the instructions he received from France, he had Reşid Pasha dismissed by following an oppressive attitude and had the pro-French Ali Pasha and Fuad Pasha sometimes appointed to the grand vizierate and sometimes to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He realized the theses of France with his effective diplomacy, which he carried out in the special Divan-ı elections, which were of vital importance in the Wallachia-Boğdan issue. Thouvenel is again on the diplomatic side of the Suez Canal project under the direction of French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, which will provide prestige for his country in the East, require serious engineering and will connect the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, which angered the British. In addition, the Légion d'honneur, which no Ottoman sultan had accepted before, was given to Abdülmecid with a magnificent ceremony in Çırağan by Thouvenel, and the Sultan attended a ball at the French Embassy for the first time.
Thouvenel, who continued his activities silently for five years without making as much noise as his rival Stratford, in Istanbul, III. While he was Napoleon's ambassador in Istanbul who started the French era, he returned to Paris as the Minister of Foreign Affairs who directed the French foreign policy.
Nihat Yazılıtaş The earliest known traveler is Strabo (64 BC - 24 AD) who was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. After Strabo, many travelers have traveled the world and described the places they have visited in their travel books. In these works, they talked about the geography of the places they went, the lifestyles of the people living there, their cultures, marital status, beliefs, architectural structures, commercial life, extraordinary events told there, stories, legends and many more. In this context, travel books are extremely important sources in terms of history, especially in terms of cultural history.
Every traveler sets out on his journey with his own beliefs and acceptances imposed on him by the cultural environment in which he grew up. He evaluates what he sees accordingly. Therefore, in this study, it has been tried to choose travelers from different cultures and belief circles while determining the travel books. Thus, the Sunni Muslim Ibn Khazar from Iraq (IX. century), the Shiite Muslim Nasser-i Husrev (XI. century) from Iran, the Jew Benjamin from Spain and the German Jew Petachia (XII. century), again from Spain Sunni Muslim al-Gırnati (XII. century) from Italy, Christian Marco Polo (XIII. century) from Italy, Christian missionary Wilhelm Von Rubruk from France (XIII. century), Sunni Muslim Ibn Battuta from Morocco ( XIV. century) and finally Christian Johannes Schiltberger (XIV-XV. century) from Germany were included in this study. Thus, we have brought together fantastic stories, some of which are real, but most of them are too extraordinary to be true, from the eyes of these travelers who visited the three continents of the Middle Ages and came from different faiths and cultures in their own time, and presented them to the reader. When readers start to read these fantastic stories, they will see the similarities between the subjects of fantastic stories, novels, TV series and movies that have increased in popularity today, and how the medieval narratives have sourced these modern studies.
Mesut Hakkı Caşın No war can be understood independently of the multi-layered accumulation of historical, political, ethnic, religious, economic, cultural and commercial interests that prepared it.
In this context, this work named World War II; While pursuing to bring to light the intertwined and complex causes of the Second World War that are beyond the visible, it also examines the background of the effect of economic and political crises on the strengthening of totalitarian regimes, together with its intricate causes.
In addition, while reconsidering the causes and consequences of the Second World War, as the bloodiest conflict of the twentieth century, eighty years later, it also sheds light on its complex connection with the problems eighty years later, enabling us to understand the hot and cold war potential of power relations in today's world.
The thousands of documented photographs included in the book, on the other hand, will memorize both the tools and ammunition of the war, as well as the horror and destructiveness of the war, as a documentary film.
Abdül Halim Varol, Cevdet Yakupoğlu, Ergin Ögcem, Erhan Ateş, Halil İbrahim Gökbörü, Kemal Taşcı, Mehmet Vural, Mustafa Hizmetli, Mustafa Uyar, Özgür Tokan, Özkan Dayı, Seyfullah Kara, Tunay Karakök The first Turkish-Islamic States History book is a new and original work on the history of medieval Muslim and Turkish states. The book covers a wide historical period in chronological terms. In this process, the emergence of Islam, the acceptance of the religion of Islam by the Turks, the establishment of Muslim Turkish states and their dominance in the Islamic world; In addition, the organization, culture and civilization issues of these states were discussed. Thus, on the one hand, the political, social and cultural issues that developed in the history of Islam; On the other hand, the politics, organization, culture and civilization of the first Muslim Turkish states were discussed. The topics in the book are written in an original approach and academic style. The First History of Turkish-Islamic States book, prepared with the contribution of many academicians who are experts in their fields, is also a textbook for universities.
Alaattin Dolu, Asiye Şahin, Hüseyin Önal, İsmail Taşpınar, Lana Kudumovic, Ömür Yazıcı Özdemir, Ruba Kasmo, Sezen Karabulut, Yasemin Avcı Jerusalem contains a witness that has been given to very few cities in history. In the past century, the occupation of Jerusalem and the problems of the Islamic World have progressed in parallel. This situation requires a multidimensional evaluation with its intellectual, geographical, socio-cultural and economic components, beyond being an issue that only awaits a political solution.
Jerusalem studies are getting richer day by day. Uncovering the social and spatial remnant of the ancient city and producing the scientific archive against the destruction of Jerusalem by reduced interventions to the nation ideology is seen as an indispensable prerequisite for these researches.
The book in your hand has been prepared with the aim of contributing to the expanding Jerusalem Library in Turkey. In the book, a versatile Jerusalem perspective is presented through original studies that evaluate Jerusalem in terms of its historical, cultural, urban and architectural dimensions and address the Jerusalem issue from the perspective of international law.
Halil İbrahim Erol XIX. historiography in 19th-century Egypt; It is analyzed through Abdurrahman al-Ceberti, Abdullah al-Sharkavi, Ismail al-Haşşâb, Ahmed er-Recebî, Nikola et-Türk and their works. This work, which is the first in Turkish literature, deals with the main sources in Arabic as well as related researches in the English and partly French literature. The work has a special importance in Ottoman historiography as it enables the comparison of the last period historiography. In this respect, it presents interesting examples from the field about historiography, historical thought and procedure. In the work; Mamluks, Wahhabis, Azhar ulema, Egyptian society, declarations about the propaganda of the image of Muslim-French distributed to the public during the French occupation, Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha and his period are among the prominent issues.
Ahmet Tetik, Gülcan Işık One of the camps in Egypt, where the soldiers of the Ottoman Army, who fought on the fronts of the First World War, and the soldiers who were taken prisoner by the British, were kept, is the "Tura Prisoner Camp" near Cairo. The war ended in 1919, but the captives could not be released yet.
In the camp, the captive Turkish officers, who are not detached from the world, publish a handwritten newspaper in order to protect their resistance, to make evaluations to prepare today for tomorrow, to keep the struggle for freedom and patriotism mentally, even though they are in captivity financially: LIGHT!
To live is to build tomorrow today, not yesterday. Those in the camp are also conscious of this. “It should not be forgotten that people who look at the ukba rather than the world; They neglect their welfare between the cradle and the grave.” The intact bodies of those found in Tura are the most valuable gift for "the homeland whose cemeteries have increased and its vigor has decreased". "Life; It is not just a heavy ordeal that ends in death, as we understand it.” Turkish soldiers living in captivity, the Turkish Nation "If it was defeated in China, it was defeated in India. If he left Turan, he entered Iran. If it sank in Persia, it came out in Byzantium." they know the truth. They have to create a happy tomorrow out of a great disaster.
To be defeated is not to die. Those who are imprisoned behind the fence in Tura are the life of tomorrow. Them; “They are the lights of a poor land.” They cannot waste their time in captivity in vain, they cannot laugh and have fun. “A generation that does not think about tomorrow in every minute that interferes with the past; It is not capable of standing up cross-legged beings.”
LIGHT; “Phoenix” reborn after a century from the ashes of captivity…
Mesut Hakkı Caşın Throughout history, Turkish-Russian relations have been one of the main elements, probably the most important, of the general view of the Eurasian region and the balance of power in this geography. This important rivalry, which started with the relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Tsardom, at first tended to gain the appearance of cooperation after the establishment of the Soviet Union. With the World War II, this time it showed itself with the effect of an ideological separation. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, although there is no direct land border between Turkey and the Russian Federation, the intensity of relations between the parties has not decreased; on the contrary, due to Turkey's relationship with the Caucasus and Central Asian Turkic republics, it has gained even more importance.
There is a need for a better understanding of Russia in our country in order to better understand this new relationship ground, which often emerges as conflict/competition and sometimes as common understanding/cooperation. This academic study in your hand is of a quality that sheds light on our understanding of Russia's present and future, which takes its place in this dilemma from the point of view of Russia. Author Prof. Dr. In his work, Mesut Hakkı Caşın also uses the historical background and brief flashbacks necessary for a better understanding of this period, while trying to analyze the situation in the Russian Federation that emerged after Vladimir Putin became President. With these features, the study is a useful contribution to the efforts we feel lacking regarding Russia.
Abdurrahman İlhan, Arzu Erman, Bilal Karabulut, Doğacan Başaran, Elif Günal, Emre Ozan, H. Mustafa Eravcı, Kadir Ertaç Çelik, Mehmet Seyfettin Erol, Mücahide Nihal Engel, Naime Yüksel Kayaçağlayan, Nuri Salık, Sayim Türkman, Serpil Güdül Throughout history, the Middle East has never lost its charm due to its strategic location and the political and economic expectations of global powers. The Middle East, which experienced a stable period during the rule of the Ottoman Empire (1517-1917), first came under the control of England and France with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War, and then the USSR and the USA during the "Cold War" Period. It has been a field of contention in the political and military fields of the United States.
This second book, which was prepared as a continuation of the previous book "Middle East Perspective I", sheds light on the history of the Middle East, again with the contributions of many academicians, on the political, military and economic events experienced by the Middle East countries in the historical process.
Mahmud Şevket Paşa Written by Mahmut Şevket Pasha, illustrated by the Naval Ministry painter Hüseyin Hüsnü (Töngüz) Efendi, this work, consisting of three volumes and an addendum, named Ottoman Organization and Dress-i Military, is both military and military work from the foundation of the Ottoman Empire to its last period. He examines in great detail the organization of the military, as well as military outfits, which are not found in almost any other source. The first volume of the work covers the period from the establishment of the Ottoman Empire to the abolition of the Janissary Corps, the second volume covers the period from the establishment of the Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye Army to 1876, and the third volume covers the period between 1876-1903. The appendix to the work includes some partial changes made after 1903.
The first two volumes of the work, the third volume and the appendix, which were printed in the Mekteb-i Harbiye Printing House in 1909, were not published during the period, probably because they contain information about the current military organization. This part of the work, which includes the period of Sultan Abdulhamid, is also of great importance in that it covers a period in which the military organization developed tremendously. Mahmut Şevket Pasha, in the preface of the first edition, wishes that this last volume will be published in the future, and with this publication, we are fulfilling the will of Pasha a hundred years ago.
We hope that this magnificent work, which we have transferred from the manuscript copy containing all the volumes in the Rare Works Library of Istanbul University, to today's alphabet by being faithful to the language of the period, will be a source for detailed researches of history researchers.
Mustafa Can, Nejla Günay, Ramazan Erhan Güllü, S. Gül Akyılmaz, Tuğba Eray Biber The Ottomans managed to maintain their unity and integrity in three continents by establishing and administering one of the longest-lived states in the world, in a geography known as the old world continents. It would be a wrong approach to base this success only on military power. Because the Ottoman Empire was able to maintain its existence for about three more centuries after losing its military power. So, to understand this, “How did the Ottomans provide peace and prosperity in the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus, where turmoil is dominant today?” The answer to the question must be sought. Thus, it will be possible to find clues on how to improve the relations of societies with different cultures and beliefs with each other and how to achieve peace.
The Ottoman State showed the sensitivity of managing the beliefs and values ​​of its people with different origins, beliefs and cultural characteristics, rather than interfering and preventing them. The most important aim of the state was to ensure peace and tranquility through the society's coexistence within the framework of mutual respect. For this reason, he developed a management model called the "Ottoman Nation System" and accepted different religions as interlocutors before the newly established religious institutions and leaders to represent them. The Ottoman State connected the Orthodox Christian people and especially other Christian elements in the Balkans to the Fener Greek Patriarchate, the Armenian people to the Armenian Patriarchate, and the Jewish people to the religious leader known as the Chief Rabbi and ruled through them. According to this, the leader of each congregation was obliged to collect the tax that his congregation had to pay, to deliver it to the treasury and to ensure that the members of the congregation comply with the laws set by the state. On the other hand, the state did not interfere with the religious and cultural lives of the communities by leaving them free in their own internal order.
Muhammed Emin Durmuş The concept of mukâtaa is used to express practices that have different legal consequences in foundation law, as in Ottoman financial law. In this study, the focus is mainly on the practice of mukataa, which means renting the foundation land to anyone who wants to build a building or plant a tree, with the right of decision and ownership of it. The foundations of the mukâtaa practice date back to before the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottomans further developed this practice, which they inherited, with some arrangements and used it for centuries. However, Ottoman lawyers, who saw that the mukâtaa practice caused the abuse of foundations over time, did not insist on this practice, on the contrary, they developed the more advantageous icâreteyn practice for foundations. This shows that mukataa paved the way for the practice of icareteyn. In this book, the historical background, nature, different practices, conditions, legal principles and rights of the mukataa contract in the 16th and 17th centuries have been tried to be revealed, especially based on fatwa journals and sharia registers.
Yavuz Unat Although the research on Ottoman science in Turkey is carried back to 1955 academically, it is still very new. For the last 20 years or so, important studies have been carried out on Ottoman science, and with these studies, general opinions about Ottoman science have gradually changed. In particular, the Ottomans did not follow the West sufficiently, and the evaluations made only by looking at the innovation movements are far from drawing the general framework of Ottoman science. Studies of the history of science show us that the success of civilizations is largely dependent on scientific and cultural movements. In this sense, it is impossible to say that the Ottoman Empire, which managed to become a 600-year-old world empire, failed in science. This book, which we call Science and Technology in the Ottomans, is a study that compiles the researches of science historians working in this field in Turkey and consists of some published articles. The aim of the study is to convey the researches and results in this field to the general reader. Science and Technology in the Ottomans consists of three main parts. The first chapter contains general writings on Ottoman science and is titled An Overview of Science and Philosophy. The second part is devoted to the subject of Mathematical Sciences (Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics) in the Ottomans. The third part includes the subjects of Geography, Geology, Medicine and Technology in the Ottomans.
Hakan Yıldız ow much are we aware thet the secret of the Ottoman Empire's success in spreading three continents lies within the well-thought, planned and realized organizationsas as much as the valour and braveness?
Years long archive researches provides countless information for us to imagine this campaign organized in 1711 with its all.
...from the official war declaration following the opinion-taking meetings of the Sultan to the imperial orders issued to initiate the preparations on the campaign route...
...from ovens constructed in each range where the army would take a break to be able to provide them with fresh bread to the buzcus who would start to serve at the end of the winter season in order to keep foods and beverages cold...
...from seeing janissaries off from Istanbul with festivals to the arrival of the soldiers coming from numerous states at the determined points...
Briefly, as discovering the “Secret of the Ottoman Victories”, this book presents an alive panorama of a forgotten world.
Salih Yılmaz Dear readers!
Russia is an amazing country. There are more than 190 ethnic communities in its cultural identity. Most of them have been living in their home country since history. Peoples of different languages, beliefs and ethnicities in Russia not only preserve their languages, customs and traditions, but also contribute to the cultural richness of the country with an education system that can transfer them to future generations.
2019 is mutually celebrated as the year of culture and tourism in Russia and Turkey. In 2019, citizens of the Republic of Turkey will have the opportunity to meet with many activities related to Russian culture and history. These events include concerts, cinema shows, painting and crafts exhibitions, etc. will be. With all these activities, it may be possible to reflect the cultural richness of Russia to the Turkish society.
This book you will read will contribute to you with an interesting presentation of information that will guide the ethnic world of the Russian Federation. While reading this book, you will get acquainted with the history of the peoples of Russia, their languages, cultures, traditions and their relations with the state in general. If you want to understand the geography of Russia and Russia, you must start with understanding the history, political, economic and cultural development of the peoples living in that region. This book will be a good guide for you.
This book will be useful for Turkish businessmen, politicians and the general public to get to know and understand Russia. In addition, it can shed light on a new beginning for researchers, academics, teachers and students who are curious about the historical past of Russia and want to do research on it.
I wish you a good reading with the hope that it will contribute to the development of Turkey-Russia cooperation.
Aleksey YERHOV - Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Turkey
Abdulhakim Koçin, Eyüp Ertüren It has been 95 years since the Sheikh Said incident, which left its mark on a period in the history of the Republic of Turkey. The court records regarding this incident, which are in the archives of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, have remained closed until recently; It could not be examined by researchers other than those with special permission.
This book is the translation of the judgment number 69. Decision numbered 366 pages in Ottoman Turkish, which is among the files of the Independence Court. Therefore, in this book, there are translations of the statements and defenses of 92 people who were tried in the same case with him within the scope of the Sheikh Said incident, more than a hundred letters presented to the court as evidence and read in the court, and some reports.
While translating the documents in the book, no simplification has been made in order not to harm the originality of the text and to make it a text that can be used safely by those who will do research on this subject. In addition, the causes, effects, etc. of the incident in the book. not entered into the analysis; No evaluation has been made regarding the members of the court committee and the excused.
Abdullah Uçman, Abdülkadir İlgen, Abu Muslim Akdemir, Açıkgenç Alpaslan, Ahmet Güner Sayar, Ali Coşkun, Ali Utku, Ayhan Bıçak, Ayşe Durakbaşı, Bayram Ali Çetinkaya, Bedri Gencer, Beşir Ayvazoğlu, Buğra Ekinci, C. Muammer Muşta, Can Karaböcek, Cem Tezer, Cevriye Demir Güneş, Ceyhun Cengiz Akın, Cumhur Arslan, Cüneyt Köksal, David Grunberg, Derya Mengilli, Emine Gözde Özgürel, Emrullah Kılıç, Eyüp Sanay, Fatma Odabaşı, Fazlı Arslan, Fethi Gedikli, Gül Eren, Hacı Bayram Kaçmazoğlu, Halil İbrahim Düzenli, Hikmet Celkan, Hilal Görgün, Hüsameddin Erdem, Hüseyin Gazi Topdemir, İlkay Erdem, İsmail Köz, Kâmil Yeşil, Kemal Bakır, Kenul Bünyadzâde, Kevser Çelik, Kurtuluş Kayalı, Mehmet Akgün, Mehmet Ali Dombaycı, Mehmet Görmez, Mehmet Karaca, Mesud İnan, Murtaza Korlaelçi, Mustafa Erkal, Mustafa Günay, Mustafa Kara, Mustafa Kök, Mustafa Öztürk, N. Güngör Ergan, Naci Bostancı, Nasrullah Hacı Müftüoğlu, Necmeddin Tozlu, Necmi Uyanık, Nevzat Kösoğlu, Nuray Karaca, Nuray Kuray, Nurten Gökalp, Orhan, Okay, Osman Aydınlı, Ömer Hakan Özalp, Ömer Osman Sarı, Ömer Özden, Öner Necati, Rabia Karakoyun Gündoğdu, Rabia Karakoyun, Recep Batu, Recep Ertürk, Recep Kılıç, Recep Şentürk, Sadık Erol Er, Samed Bağçeli, Semra Uçar, Senail Özkan, Sönmez Kutlu, Suad Mertoğlu, Süleyman Dönmez, Süleyman Hayri Bolay, Şaban Ali Düzgün, Şengül, Çelik, Şükrü Hanioğlu, Tahsin Görgün, Tarık Tuna Gözütok, Uğur Odabaşı, Uluğ Nutku, Ümit Akça, Vâris Çakan, Yakup Yıldız, Yavuz Akpınar, Yavuz Unat, Yılmaz Özakpınar, Yılmaz Soyyer, Yusuf Kaplan, Yümni Sezen, Zeki Arslantürk Our first goal in preparing this voluminous work is to enable our new generations to meet with the creative thoughts of their grandfathers and fathers in the recent past; to enable them to see everything with their own eyes and think with their own minds, and to help them circulate their own ideas. In this regard, we will not first lease our minds to the West or borrow their minds and lie on it. Because not only they are thinking, we are thinking too, we are also making “production ideas”.
Today, Turkey is located in the "periphery", not the center that determines and determines the intellectual agenda in the world, and often acts in a peripheral situation depending on the agendas determined by the center.
Therefore, our second goal is to help pave the way for getting out of the periphery and being at the centre. At the same time, it is to help the revival of our civilization, which we belong to in history, as an alternative, and to contribute to our thought life in its rebuilding.
This book also aims to reveal that contemporary Turkish thought is strong enough to be showcased in the world thought arena. If the development of our intellectual life towards its “natural medium” continues, it is certain that Turkish thought will make a significant contribution to world thought by producing newer and more original ideas. Now, we should leave behind the period of self-evaluation according to the thoughts of Western thinkers, and aim at the level where they can evaluate their own thoughts by looking at our products of thought, as in the past. We must be aware of it, so that we can move on to the periods of producing more of our new and universal ideas.
Levent Şarlak In this book, it is aimed to reflect the political view of The Times Newspaper, which was considered as the "semi-official newspaper" of England, the biggest political power of the period, to the Balkan Wars, which is also considered to be the forerunner of the First World War. Although the main subject of the book is the Balkan Wars, from the Unionist figures of the period to the Ottoman Armenians; Many different topics published in The Times, from discussions on Thessaloniki to the proposal for the Ottoman Empire, whose map, financial and administrative division were almost identical to the Treaty of Sevres of 1920, were also discussed under different headings.
Confirming the argument that the First World War was a war of partitioning the Ottoman Empire, nearly half of The Times' overall pre-war one-year editorial deals directly with Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. In this war of division, the rivalry between the Great Powers also took place in Paris, St. Petersburgh was reflected in newspaper columns with telegrams from Vienna and Berlin; In these capitals, the Ottoman government, especially the Union and Progress administrators, was followed with the meticulousness of an intelligence officer. In this respect, the Istanbul correspondent, who could be considered the main source of The Times on the Ottoman Empire at that time, was the British intelligence officer working in the Ottoman lands since 1905 and the person who trained the famous British agent Lawrence at the Cairo station; It is not a coincidence that readers' letters come from people like Gertrude Bell and Mark Sykes, Sykes of the Sykes-Picot Agreement...
Ahmet Kanlıdere, Ahmet Yüksel, Ali Ahmetbeyoğlu, Emine Dingeç, Emine Erdoğan Özünlü, Erkan Göksu, Haşim Şahin, Kürşat Yıldırım, Muallâ Uydu Yücel, Müslüme Melis Çeliktaş, Ömer Soner Hunkan, Serkan Yazıcı This book, in which we try to deal with Turkish History and Culture in a wide range from about 2500 BC to the beginning of the 20th century, is prepared for both undergraduate students and those who are interested in the subject and want to acquire basic information. . From the origin and first living areas of the Turks to the first state they established in history, from their meeting with Islam to the first Muslim Turkish states, from the Turkish presence in Anatolia to the Ottoman Empire that ruled three continents, the turning points of Turkish history and the state organization and cultural life of these political structures, the expert in the field. You will read from the pen of the teachers…
Nurullah Çetin Iraq and Syria were formerly Turkish homelands. Iraqi and Syrian Turkmen are a continuation and relative of the Turks of Turkey. Turks in Turkmeneli, which is the name of the ancient Turkish homelands in Iraq and Syria today, are in danger of extinction under the persecution of ISIS and Barzani peshmerga. Today, Turkish villages and cities in Turkmeneli are evacuated and occupied by ISIS and the peshmerga. Turkey must protect the Iraqi and Syrian Turkmen in order to preserve its existence.
Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş …What I especially appreciate is that in the context in question, as has been done many times, we speak of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian -whether explicitly, implicitly or indirectly- as separate or even contradictory elements, which are added to each other in the most reasonable assumption but cannot come into contact with each other sincerely. was not done. Therefore, your book fills a void. I would like to express my appreciation and congratulations for this important service and contribution to the Ottoman-Armenian common intellectual history, and I sincerely hope that your work will reach as wide a readership as possible...
prof. Dr. Boghos Levon Zekiyan

The majority of the studies on Armenians, whose experience of living together with the Turks is long, has been transformed into a field conceptualized as the Armenian Question. Therefore, Ottoman subjects of Armenian origin have been the subject of very little research outside the areas of conflict. Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş focused on a neglected phenomenon with her work. The emergence of the modern intellectual class is related to the formation of the appropriate atmosphere. The Ottoman intellectual class was also born with the formation of a suitable atmosphere with its own peculiarities. Intellectuals of Armenian origin also breathed in the same atmosphere. It can even be said that the emergence of Armenian intellectuals, rather than the intellectual development in the West, although they established a printing press centuries before the Turks, was mainly the result of the processes experienced in the Ottoman capital. In this sense, it would not be right to separate the intellectual world from the emergence and development of Ottoman-Turkish intellectuals. In this process, intellectuals of Armenian origin contributed to Turkish cultural life, which we can see as logistic support. These contributions are mostly dictionaries, music, art, etc. will appear in the fields. Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş, with her research on the people she dealt with and her works, has taken this contribution from the level of discourse to the level that can be supported by facts, while also showing that different doors can be opened for research on Armenians.
prof. Dr. Ahmet Ozcan

This work of Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş is very important as it shows that a study on Ottoman Armenians can go far beyond the narrow frame of the 1915 events. With this comprehensive study, Bozkuş reveals the contributions of the Ottoman Armenians to the Ottoman culture and science world, and also shows that this community is an inseparable part of the Ottoman society. Compressing centuries-old intricate inter-communal relations into a few years of political/military conflict is one of the greatest weaknesses of the Armenian studies literature in Turkey. For this reason, it would not be wrong to say that this work fills an important gap in the literature.
Assoc. Dr. Mustafa Serdar Palabiyik