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                                                                <journal-id>yillik</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2687-5012</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2687-5691</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı Kültür ve Sanat İşletmesi</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.53979/yillik.2019.4</article-id>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Silent Guardians of the Regime: The ‘Lost’ Police Stations of the Topkapı Palace</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Rejimin Sessiz Bekçileri: Topkapı Sarayı’nın ‘Kayıp’ Karakolları</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Özlü</surname>
                                    <given-names>Nilay</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Altınbaş Üniversitesi</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20191227">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>27</month>
                    <year>2019</year>
                </pub-date>
                                        <volume>1</volume>
                                        <issue>1</issue>
                                        <fpage>61</fpage>
                                        <lpage>80</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20190805">
                        <day>08</day>
                        <month>05</month>
                        <year>2019</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20190902">
                        <day>09</day>
                        <month>02</month>
                        <year>2019</year>
                    </date>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2012, YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2012</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>This article examines the emergence of police stations as an architectural and institutionalnovelty that reflected the modernization and centralization of the Ottoman Empire duringthe nineteenth century. At the heart of this paper lies the Topkapı Palace, the traditionalresidence of the Ottoman dynasty, which was abandoned by the imperial family in thenineteenth century and then took on new meanings and functions. The symbolic, religious,political, and historical significance of the Topkapı Palace endured and new buildings andinstitutions were established within the precincts of the royal complex. Numerous policestations were also erected in the Topkapı Palace from the reign of Mahmud II (1808-1839)onwards, which manifested the visibility and authority of the ruler and emphasized thechanging military character of the state. Under the rule of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909) thenumber of police stations within the royal complex amounted to ten, which underlines theimportance attributed to the symbolic and physical protection of the Topkapı Palace. Thisarticle explores the ideological, urban, and architectural implications of these police stations,which reflected the public control mechanisms of the regime. Some of the police stations builtduring the reign of Abdülhamid II at strategic points of the Seraglio were later demolishedwithout any reliable documentation, and this article brings together textual, visual, andarchitectural information on the emergence and destruction of these ‘lost’ police stations.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Bu çalışma, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda polis kuvvetlerinin kurulmasına paralel olarak, yeni biryapı türü ve bir kontrol aygıtı olarak ortaya çıkan “karakol” yapılarını merkeze alır. On dokuzuncuyüzyılın askeri ve idari reformların bir yansıması olarak ele alınan karakollar, modernleşendevlet mekanizmalarının araçları olmalarının yanında, meşruiyet krizi yaşamakta olan sondönem padişahlarının da tebaaları üzerindeki otorite ve kontrolünü pekiştiren mimari vegörsel elemanlar olarak incelenmektedir. Bu makale, on dokuzuncu yüzyılda imparatorluğunyönetim merkezi ve hanedan ailesinin yerleşkesi olmaktan çıkarak, yeni anlamlar ve işlevlerkazanan Topkapı Sarayı’na odaklanmakta ve II. Mahmud’dan (1808-1839) II. Abdülhamid (1876-1909) döneminin sonuna kadar kadim sarayda inşa edilen on karakolun kapsamlı bir analizinisunmaktadır. Bu karakolların zaman içinde değişen mimari morfolojileri, dönemin başatideolojisini ve mimari dilini yansıtmakta; bunun yanı sıra iktidarını sultanın görünürlüğü vetemsiliyeti üzerinden kurgulayan Osmanlı görsel ideolojisinin değişimini de göstermektedir.Ancak, Sarayburnu’nun en görünür noktalarına inşa edilen ve sultanın mutlak otoritesinin vegörünmez gözünün sembolü olan birtakım karakollar daha sonraki dönemlerde belgelenmedenyıkılmış, toplumsal hafızadan silinmiştir. Bu makale, Topkapı Sarayı’ndaki karakolların izini, arşivbelgeleri, kartpostallar, fotoğraflar, gravürler ve gazetelerden derlenen bilgiler üzerinden sürer.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Topkapı Palace</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  police stations</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  modernization</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  disciplinary mechanisms</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Topkapı Sarayı</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  polis karakolları</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  modernleşme</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  disiplin mekanizmaları</kwd>
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