Periodical publishing, which entered Ottoman society towards the middle of the 19th century, gained momentum in the atmosphere of freedom brought by the Second Constitutional Era, and many political, commercial, literary and professional journals began publication. The first scientific and professional journals in Turkey also started to be published from the middle of the 19th century. While some of these journals were published through the efforts of individuals, scientific and professional societies and some state institutions also pioneered the publication of journals related to their fields.
This project is a study of the Journal of the Halkalı Higher School of Agriculture (Halkalı Ziraat Mekteb-i Alisi Mecmuası), published by the faculty members of the Halkalı School of Agriculture, which operated under the auspices of a state institution, the Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture.
The journal, which had a publication life of 7 issues in 1917-1918, is being transcribed by our undergraduate students. This Ottoman Turkish journal, a major source work for faculties of agriculture and veterinary medicine, will be brought back into the literature through the efforts of our undergraduate students.
The project, advised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Beytullah Kaya, Dr. Nuray Ocaklı and Dr. Abdullah Tok, continues with the work of the Young Historians Club.
Within the understanding of administration that began to change with the Tanzimat, funding was sought for the reforms that were to be made. The first area that came to mind for this was agriculture, which was the most important source of income and livelihood of the Ottoman State. The aim was to encourage the cultivation of industrial crops in order to produce raw materials for the ever-growing European industry and thus balance foreign trade. To this end, the first step was to move away from the old understanding of agriculture and spread agriculture based on modern methods. In line with these aims, agricultural schools were opened, or attempts were made to open them, at various times starting from 1848. Finally, a school providing higher-level agricultural education was opened in 1892. This school, named the Halkalı School of Agriculture, also provided education together with the Veterinary School and the Forestry School for a period. Graduates of the Halkalı School of Agriculture did not only become farmers but also served at various levels of the state as members of parliament, administrators, civil servants or teachers in schools of different status.
The project will research the Halkalı School of Agriculture, which provided the most modern and comprehensive agricultural education of its time in the Ottoman State in the 19th and 20th centuries, and its students, who were trained at this school, spread to every corner of the Empire and modernized agriculture and animal husbandry wherever they went. The aim is to examine and exhibit the conditions and education system of the school at that time using first-hand archival sources, articles, theses, books, tools and journals. The project, advised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Beytullah Kaya, Dr. Nuray Ocaklı and Dr. Abdullah Tok, continues with the work of the Young Historians Club.
It aims to examine and bring together the literature written on the economic and social system of the Ottoman State and to review existing sources on the social and economic structure of the Ottoman State with a holistic approach. In the study, pioneering scholars working on the Ottoman economic and social system were selected as a sample. The study selected 10 pioneering scholars and aims to examine their work and, drawing on this work, present the economic and social system of the Ottoman State with a holistic approach in a more understandable way.