1908 Osmanlı Boykotu

The declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy took place with events that brought public opinion into being for the first time in the Ottoman Empire. Actions, rallies, meetings and stopped strikes... The public opinion, which later gave its vitality to 1908, passed the power and spontaneity of the street once the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Austria and the declaration of independence of Bulgaria. In the process known as the "Ottoman Fez Boycott", the people used their own initiative and started a boycott against Austrian and Bulgarian goods. The boycott, symbolized by the fez imported from Austria, soon became more organized and actions directed by the Committee of Union and Progress. In this process, which was achieved for the first time not with a real war but with "economic warfare", the Ottoman idea inspired by 1908 regained its vitality and the invention of national economy also emerged. With the necessity of establishing a national industry and the reasons for this being easily overthrown, the 1908 Boycott put many political mobilization factors into play at the same time. Y. Çetinkaya 1908 Ottoman Boycott; In his study, Analysis of a Social Movement, he draws attention to the characteristics and importance of this social movement with the influence of the daily press, the power of political mobilization on the masses, the spontaneity of the masses, and the reflections of nationalism in different colors. With its extensive archive work, its care in asking questions, and its thoroughness in its answers, this book is a book that is part of World War II. He looks at the world and people of the Constitutional Monarchy period from the inside, "from below" and from their side.



Number of Pages: 447

Year of Printing: 2004


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 447

First Print Year: 2004

Language Turkish