Stratford Canning’in İstanbul Büyükelçiliği (1841-1847)
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2017Author
Sarıalioğlu, İrşat
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Stratford Canning, a typical nineteenth century British diplomat and lived between 1786
and 1880, spent many of his 94 years in the Ottoman Empire. Not only his service time
that he spent in the capital city of the Ottoman Empire was important, but it was crucial
because his incumbency overlapped distinct stages of development that the Ottoman
Empire went through. Canning himself witnessed pivotal developments in the Ottoman
Empire in the 19th century such as The Napoleonic Wars, The Treaty of Bucharest with
Russia, Mahmud II’s Reforms, The Tanzimat Era, The Rejuvenation Policy of the
Ottoman Empire, The Crimean War, and The Preparation Process of the Royal Edict of
Reform (1856). He also took part in these developments as a diplomat of the world
hegemon.
This study focused on Cannings’ incumbency between 1841 and 1847 when he worked
as a diplomat under Foreign Secretary Aberdeen. The main focus of the study is the
problem of the Rejuvenation of the Ottoman Empire which was a part of the policy of
protecting the territorial integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire that we
think that it is not a simple matter but a very intricate issue. On the one hand, the study
challenges a commonly held assumption that explains the Rejuvenation of the Ottoman
Empire that regulated economy, state-individual relationship, the restoration of the
army, the reassignment of administrative body in Cebel-i Lübnan, and the entire central
administrative body by grounding it on dualisms such as teacher-student, parent-child
in the literature. On the other hand, the study argues that the Rejuvenation Process
was “interactive” and “reciprocal” and it was comprised of not only partnership but also
disagreements and it was based on “collaboration and communication”.