The Political System of the Republic of Turkey, Past and Present [PDF]
The first constitution of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire was adopted in 1876 – the Kânûn-ı Esâsî (Eng. Fundamental Law). In its history, Turkey has had four constitutions.
Burak, Ahmet, Marszałek-Kawa, Joanna
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The Transformation of Ottoman Criminal Law in the 19th Century: The Example of Crime of Complicity
In the XIX. century, Ottoman State has witnessed changes in many areas. Looking at the content of both the dated 1840 and the dated 1851 Penal Codes legislated in Tanzimat Era, it has seen that the transformation in criminal procedure, the judicial ...
Kübra Nugay, Abdullah Kahraman
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Sultan, dynasty & state in the Ottoman Empire: political institutions in the 16th century [PDF]
From its inception around 1300, 'the House of Osman' maintained the ancient Eurasian steppe tradition which kept the system of suc cession open. At a sultan's death, the throne went to the best candidate to emerge in a contest.
Kunt, Metin
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Land Registration in Former Ottoman Lands: Salonica and its Environs 1917-1922
Due to the pressure of migration and to solve the question of landless farmers, the Venizelos administration passed a Land Reform in 1917. It also offered the government a chance to secure its rights on the former Ottoman lands in Thessaly.
Can Eyüp Çekiç
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Transforming (Private) Rights through (Public) International Law::Readings on a ‘Strange and Painful Odyssey’ in the PCIJ Mavrommatis Case1 [PDF]
Straddling both the centres of (European) power and the shifting dynamics of the post-Ottoman world in a quest to guarantee private rights through public international legal redress, the PCIJ Mavrommatis case provides a rich resource for interrogating ...
Burgis-Kasthala, Michelle
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Mediation as a Diplomatic Tool in Ottoman Capitulations
Despite the substantial body of literature on capitulations in the Ottoman Empire, hardly any of it explores the role of mediation in the process of concessions becoming a heavy burden for the Ottoman Empire.
Hilal Çiftçi
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'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]
Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
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Assessing the Thessaloniki Detention Center Project and the Discovery Book/Keşif Defteri
Modern Ottoman prisons had been shaped around the second half of the 19th century, taken on legal identities by issuing relevant legally based regulations, and been handled within the framework of the search. The need to construct modern prison buildings
Emre Kolay, Müge Çiftyürek
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Landholding and landscape in Ottoman Cyprus [PDF]
In Ottoman Cyprus (1571–1878), social organization was based above all on the ownership and exploitation of agricultural land. The social relations, economic processes and daily practices of landowning elites and peasant farmers alike were structured by ...
Given, M., Hadjianastasis, M.
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POLOŽAJ I NADLEŽNOSTI KADIJE U OSMANSKOM PRAVNOM SISTEMU//THE POSITION AND COMPETENCIES OF QADIS IN OTTOMAN LEGAL SYSTEM [PDF]
Qadis were representatives of judicial branch in Ottoman Empire. The origin of this legal institute comes from the early development phase of islamic state – Omeyyad dinasty when the first rulers and later caliphs apointed qadis for solving disputes. For
Sead Bandžović
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