NAMIK KEMAL’S ECONOMIC THOUGHTS

Year 2018, Volume: 11 Issue: 3, 1997 - 2011, 31.12.2018

Kenan Demir

https://doi.org/10.17218/hititsosbil.450698

Abstract

The state’s economy policies
were discussed on press organs and journalists wrote about them. One of those
journalists was Namık Kemal. Being the most known of Ottoman intellectuals in
19th century and the most effective journalist of the period Namık Kemal wrote
many articles about the state’s economy policies on press of the period even
though he wasn’t an economist. Kemal showed the government of the state as the
reason of nondevelopment. He wanted that the agriculture being in the first
place, industry and trade sectors should also be considered important and
improved for the state’s development. Even though Kemal wanted the state would
be governed in the direction of free trade thinking, he also spoke of the free
trade’s damages to country. Expressing that the 1838 trade agreement was early
and his criticisms such as the fact that the state could not produce effective
policies in the development of industry and trade showed that Kemal wasn’t a
huge fan of free trade. In this study, Namık Kemal’s economic thoughts are expressed
considering his articles about economics on Tasvir-i Efkâr, Hürryet, İbret,
Cüzdan and Diyojen newspapers.

Keywords

Ottoman Empire, Namık Kemal, Ekonomic Thoughts

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