Balyosunun Kapudanı: İhtida, Çetrefilli Sadakatler ve İstanbul ile Venedik Arasında Uluc Hasan Paşa (1588-1591)

Year 2016, , 277 - 319, 27.07.2016

Emrah Safa Gürkan

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.588066

Abstract

Bu makale İstanbul’daki Venedik balyosu ile Venedikli bir mühtedi olan
Kapudan-ı Derya Uluc Hasan Paşa (Hasan Veneziano) arasındaki ilişkiye odaklanmaktadır. Bu iki Venedikli arasındaki ortak geçmişin, ikilinin kişisel ilişkilerini ve Osmanlı
Venedik arasındaki diplomatik görüşmeleri nasıl etkilediğini Venedik ve İspanyol
arşivlerine dayanarak incelemektedir. İlk olarak, karşılıklı fayda üzerine bina edilmiş
diplomasinin en üst seviyesindeki bu yardımlaşma çeşitli açılardan ele alınmaktadır.
İkinci olarak ise, çalışmamız Uluc Hasan Paşa’nın geçmişi ve geleceği, anavatanı ve
yeni yurdu, kısacası Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ile Venedik Cumhuriyeti arasındaki yalpalamasını etüd etmektedir. Bu Osmanlı mühtedisinin iç çatışmalarını nasıl çözdüğü
ve çetrefilli sadakatlerin diplomatik görüşmelerde nasıl bir rol oynadığı gibi konular üzerinde durmaktadır. Son olarak, Hıristiyan hükümdarlar ve mühtedi paşalar
arasında gerçekleşen benzer dinler-ötesi diplomatik görüşmeleri bir karşılaştırmaya
tâbi tutarak, Avrupalı devletlerin mühtedilere karşı değişik tavırlarını incelemeye çalışmaktadır. İmparatorluk projelerindeki ve mühtedilerin sosyal arka planlarındaki
farkların eski tebâlarıyla pazarlık ederken Habsburglar ve Venediklileri nasıl değişik
argümanlar üretmeye ve farklı kavramlar kullanmaya ittiği gösterilmektedir

Keywords

İhtida, mühtedi, kimlik, uyruk, aidiyet, dinler-ötesi diplomasi, gizli diplomasi, Kapudan-ı Derya, bailo, Osmanlı – Venedik ilişkileri, Habsburglar

His Bailo’s Kapudan: Conversion, Tangled Loyalties and Hasan Veneziano between Istanbul and Venice (1588-1591)

Abstract

This article concentrates on the relationship between the Ottoman Grand
Admiral Uluc Hasan Pasha (Hasan Veneziano), a Venetian renegade, and the Venetian
ambassadors (baili) in Istanbul. Based on documentation from Venetian and Spanish archives, it analyzes how two compatriot’s shared background shaped diplomatic
negotiations and their personal relationship. First, it scrutinizes several aspects of this
mutually beneficent cooperation in the higher echelons of cross-confessional diplomacy. Secondly, it studies Hasan’s vacillation between the Serenissima and the Ottoman Empire, his past and present, his patria and his new homeland. It examines how
this Ottoman convert resolved his inner conflicts and what kind of a role his tangled
loyalties played in diplomatic negotiations. Finally, by comparing and contrasting
a number of similar cross-confessional diplomatic negotiations between Christian
rulers and renegade pashas, it aims to analyze the Europeans’ different attitude towards Ottoman renegades and illustrate how divergences in imperial projects and the
renegades’ social background led the Habsburgs and the Venetians employ different
arguments and use a different vocabulary while negotiating with their former subjects.

Keywords

Conversion, renegade, identity, subjecthood, belonging, cross-confessional diplomacy, secret diplomacy, Ottoman Grand Admiral, bailo, Ottoman – Venetian relations, Spanish Habsburgs.

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