Osmanlı-İran İlişkilerinde Diplomatik Problem: Bir İngiliz Kızının Kaçırılması

In this study, taking refugee of a young British women named  Katy Greenfield, who was kidnapped by a Kurdish Iranian citizen named Mirza Aziz in the city of Savuçbulak within the borders of Iran near the Ottoman Empire border in 1891, to the Consulate of Ottoman State and the events that followed will be told. Although such incidents were common on the Ottoman-Iranian border, which has a complex structure in terms of tribes in the region, both states had to be directly involved in this case as it has included the Ottoman consulate. The daughter of an British family engaged in commerce in the region, Katy Greenfield, was kidnapped by Mirza Aziz. According to Ottoman sources, the woman confessed it in the Iranian court and became a Muslim and married Mirza Aziz. However, her mother and the British consul in the region refused to accept the situation and demanded her to be taken to court again. When the young girl was taken to Tabriz for trial, she took refuge in Consulate of Ottoman in Savuçbulak. Following the young girl took refuge in the Ottoman consulate, the British government put pressure on the Iranian and Ottoman governments and demanded that the woman be handed over to her mother because of the public interest in the British newspapers to the case. The process was prolonged due to the efforts of the Ottoman consuls in the region and the resistance of the Kurdish tribes not to turn the young woman, however Katy Greenfield was taken to the court and questioned for the second time at the end. Katy Greenfield stated that she became a Muslim and would marry Mirza Aziz as in the first court. Although the British consul and her mother were reluctant, Katy turned back to Mirza Aziz.