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The Reflections of the Transition of the Ottoman Provincial Administration on the Governorship İnstitution

Muammer Değirmendere

Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:00 PM Salon: ARAŞTIRMA II SALONU

On November 21th 2015, Center for Turkish Studies will host Muammer Değirmendere* under the diskussions theses-articles. Değirmendere will deliver a speech about “The Reflections of the Transition of the Ottoman Provincial Administration on the Governorship İnstitution"** based on his thesis.

It is required to analyze the modernization process of Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century in order to understand better and improve the public administration practices and institutions in Turkish Republic. That modernization process occured at all stages of the Ottoman Empire. Not only the institutions themselves changed, but also they affected the changes of other institutions. In this context, the topic of this study is how the transition in the Ottoman Provincial Administration occured and how the governorship institution was affected by this transition. The reason of choosing the governorship as the institution is that the governor is the first figure coming to the mind about the provincial administration and it is thought that the administrator is affected most from the change occured. And the reason of choosing Hudâvendigâr Province as the field of study is that it could be controlled easily by the Head Office, as it is geographically very close to the capital city. An other factor is that it has some datas which enables to compare the institutional structures that belong to the before and after the the Tanzîmât. In this context, the study has been separated into three parts. In the first part, the process of the Ottoman Provincial Administration from the foundation to the Meşrutiyet II. has been searched. In this part, a general briefing has been made by utilizing from the secondary sources. In the second part, the affects of the transition in the provincial administration onto the governorship institution has been stated with the laws and regulations took place in the official documents of that period. In the third and the last part; it has been analyzed, specifically in the Hudâvendigâr Province, how the theory has been reflected to the practice. In this part, the method of historical research has been applied and the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archive documents, newspapers and memoirs that belong to this term have been utilized. As a result it is understood that, in the process of modernization the changes that occured in the provincial administration directly affected the governorship institution and this affect is clearly observed in the Hudâvendigâr Province.

 

* Dr.

**Muammer Değirmendere, “Osmanlı Devleti Taşra İdaresindeki Dönüşümün Valilik Kurumu Üzerindeki Yansımaları (Hudâvendigar Eyâlet Örneği, 1839-1908)”, Doktora Tezi, Uludağ Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Kamu Yönetimi Anabilim Dalı, 2015.

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