A JURIDICAL-BASED READING OF OTTOMAN MODERNISATION: REŞAT KAYNAR’S ‘THE MOVEMENETS TOWARDS FOUNDING A ‘RECHTSAAT’ IN TURKEY"
Abstract
We meet two main approaches in the Ottoman history researches of Republican era historians: The cultural-based essays generally evaluate the events of modern age -from French Revolution to World War I- through the problematic of the emergence of modern national identity, while the economy-based perspective handles the same process as transition from agricultural community to capitalist society. Meanwhile after the end of World War II, we encounter a third way of interprating the Ottoman-Turkish modernization, which is based upon the development of ‘rechtstaat’ (the rule of law) notion. Reşat Kaynar’s work, ‘The Movements Towards Founding a Rechtsaat in Turkey’ (1960), which was written upon the government models classified by Sıddık Sami Onar, professor of the Istanbul University Faculty of Law, represents a considerable example of this third view. The aim of this article is to throw light on the past of the juridical-based history-writing.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Ekin Erdem
This is me
Publication Date
October 10, 2017
Submission Date
October 26, 2017
Acceptance Date
September 9, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2015 Volume: 8 Number: 1