Jön Türk Devrimi Sonrasında Filistin’de Ortodoks Cemaat Siyaseti (1908-1910)

Yıl 2023, Cilt: 9 Sayı: 2, 443 - 469, 18.06.2023

Çevirmen: Hakan Akköz Çevirmen: Celal Öney

https://doi.org/10.21551/jhf.1309878

Öz

Bu çalışmada 1908 Jön Türk devriminden sonra Kudüs’teki Rum Ortodoks Patrikhanesinin patrik seçimine odaklanılmaktadır. Patrik adayları arasındaki iktidar mücadelesinin neden ve sonuçları üzerinde duran bu çalışma aynı zamanda bu mücadeleyi kendi çıkarları için kullanan başta Yunan olmak üzere Osmanlı ve Rusya’nın sergilediği tavırları inceliyor. Çalışmanın üzerinde durduğu diğer alan ise Filistin’deki Rum Ortodoks Arapların Rum kilise hiyerarşisine yani ruhban sınıfına dahil edilmemesi sadece cemaat olarak tutulmasının meydana getirdiği olumsuz sonuçlardır. Ruhban olmayan Rum Ortodoks Arap din adamlarının başta patriklik seçimleri olmak üzere bölgedeki Rum kiliselerinin sahip olduğu maddi ve manevi güçlerden mahrum bırakılmasını inceleyen bu çalışma, bu duruma karşı verilen mücadeleyi de vurgulamaktadır. Çalışma ayrıca bu alanda yapılan literatürü de inceleyerek zengin bir kaynakça ile Rum Ortodoks Arap Hristiyanların 1908 sonrası Filistin’de Yunan, Rus ve Osmanlı devletleri üçgeninde nasıl bir nüfuz aracı olarak kullanıldıklarını ortaya koymaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Rum Ortodoks Patrikliği, 1908 Jöntürk Devrimi, Filistin Hristiyan Araplar, Osmanlı, Rusya

Orthodox Communal Politics in Palestine after the Young Turk Revolution (1908-1910)

Öz

This study focuses on the election of the patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem after the Young Turk revolution of 1908. Focusing on the causes and consequences of the power struggle between the patriarchal candidates, this study also examines the attitudes of the Ottoman Empire and Russia, especially Greece, which used this struggle for their own interests. The other area that the study focuses on is the negative consequences of the fact that the Greek Orthodox Arabs in Palestine were not included in the Greek church hierarchy, i.e. the clergy, but were kept only as a community. This study, which examines the deprivation of the lay Greek Orthodox Arab clergy from the financial and spiritual powers of the Greek churches in the region, especially the patriarchal elections, also highlights the struggle against this situation. The study also analyses the literature in this field and reveals with a rich bibliography how Greek Orthodox Arab Christians were used as a tool of influence in the triangle of Greek, Russian as well as Ottoman states in Palestine after 1908.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, Young Turk Revolution of 1908, Palestinian Christian Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Russia

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