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| TRH5800 | Ottomans and Capitulations | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of HISTORY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ahmet KÖKSAL | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. M. Alaaddin YALÇINKAYA | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | examining the expansion of capitulations in Ottoman State and their economic, political and legal dimensions. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Summarize the capitulations in general | 1 - 5 | 1, | | PO - 2 : | express the legal and economic dimension of capitulations | 3 - 6 - 9 - 14 | 1, | | PO - 3 : | comment the role of capitulations semi-colonization of Ottoman State | 2 | 1, | | PO - 4 : | discus the place of capitulations in Turkish modernization | 2 - 7 | 1, | | PO - 5 : | express the process of abolition of capitulations | 3 - 8 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| the effects of capitulations on Ottoman economy, law and diplomatic relations and the role of contry in the process of becomming semi-colonial will be emphasized. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | What does capitulation mean as a concept? What are the types of capitulations? Religious and administrative capitulations. | | | Week 2 | Economic and Legal Capitulations | | | Week 3 | Capitulations in ancient Greece and Roman and Byzantine Empires | | | Week 4 | Capitulations in Muslim and European States | | | Week 5 | First Capitulations in the Ottoman State | | | Week 6 | Continuity of capitulations and 1740 Applications | | | Week 7 | | | | Week 8 | Capitulations and Economic Applications | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | The use of capitulations by Western states as a means of economic exploitation | | | Week 11 | Consular courts and legal application areas of capitulations | | | Week 12 | Effects of Capitulations on the Westernization of Ottoman Law and Economy
Quiz | | | Week 13 | Attempts of the Ottoman Empire to Remove Capitulations from the XVIII Century to the First Constitutional Era | | | Week 14 | Opinions of the Jonturks on Capitulations and Attemps of İttihat ve Terakki remove the capitulations | | | Week 15 | Treaty of Lausanne and capitulations.
General evaluation | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Pamuk, Şevket;1994; Osmanlı Ekonomisinde Bağımlılık ve Büyüme. | | | 2 | Yörük, A. Adem; Kapitülasyonların Kaldırılması Sürecine Dair Bibliyografik Bir Deneme: 1909-1927 Yılları Arasında Yazılmış Kapitülasyon Kitapları,Türk Hukuk Tarihi Araştırmaları, Sayı 5, 2008 (Bahar), 97-130. | | | |
| 1 | Apaydın, Bahadır; 2009; Kapitülasyonların Osmanlı-Türk Adli ve İdari Modernleşmesine Etkisi (Doktora tezi). | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 6-10/04/2026 | 1,5 | 30 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 14 | 01/05/2026 | 1,5 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 08-13/06/2026 | 1,5 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 8 | 14 | 112 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 14 | 1 | 14 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 10 | 2 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 16 | 1 | 16 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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