@article{article_13883, title={THE OTTOMAN MILLET SYSTEM}, journal={Güneydoğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi}, pages={71–86}, year={2014}, author={Öztürk, Fatih}, keywords={Osmanli, Millet, Tark, Osmanh Dev!eti, is/am}, abstract={<p>This paper explores the main tenets of the millet system. Millet is an Arabic word that tran slated into English as nation. This term was not used 0nly for non-Muslims, but also for any nation. However, in the terminology of the Ottoman historians, it is mostly used to define non-Muslim communities. People were seen in the eyes of State not 0n the basis of ethnicity or language, but religion. "Religion, language, community, ethnicity, and family made up the socio-cultural fabric of the millet." For the period of the Ottoman, the most important thing was religion and supremacy of family: in other words, the millet system was in favour of "fusion of family and the community." <br /> </p>}, number={16}, publisher={İstanbul Üniversitesi}