Outline of the May 9th Lecture / Y. Terzibaşoğlu

19th-Century Ottoman Transformation

1) Re-ordering of state structures

2) The 'national question'

3) International state system of the 19th century

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- Transformation, not 'decline'

- Transformation towards a 'modern state'

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Centralisation in administration

what did early modern states do (indirect rule)
what modern states do (direct rule, state-citizen)

Information on subjects (statistics)

Equality before the law (notion of citizenship, concept of common Ottoman nationality)

New concepts of political authority, of government, and of law

Subordination of religion to state and politics

Emergence of 'public law'

Ottoman Civil Code (Mecelle)

Rise of secterianism

Inter-communal relations (communities, not 'minorities')