@article{2019,title={CAN’T LEARN DECENCY IN A PALACE IN PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO DECENCY: ODALISQUE/ CONCUBINE (CARİYE) TRAINING IN THE 17th CENTURY OTTOMAN PALACE},abstractNode={This study focuses on trainings given to the odalisques who are member of Ottoman harem. But, in this study, rather than the period passed from early Ottoman period to last period, by focusing on 17th century harem the training in the harem is assessed. Within this scope, it is dwell on subjects such as who the harem population comprise of, in which ways odalisques are included in harem, what are the living spaces in the harem. However, one another subject on which we have focused is the performing arts at the period of Mehmed-IV. The interest of the Ottoman Sultans towards the performing arts has been well known since the very beginning. In this context the talented and skillful artists thereon performed their arts in the Palace. Particularly as of the end of the 16th Century it was become traditional at performances to maintain artists on a lot of fields available in the Palace. At the era of Mehmet IV various skillful artists were also sponsored and encouraged both at Palace and Harem. The Sultan who was prone to entertainment made a lot of players available in his Palace. In this context, the performing arts/shadow puppetry/puppet education and costs incurred for such education at the era of Mehmed have also been tried to be discussed and evaluated. By also using the period sources and documents determined in İstanbul Prime Ministry Ottoman Archive, it was tried to reveal that the Ottoman harem is a training institution for servants of the sultan family. In addition, it was also seen that the young women belong to harem were not taken only to odalisques appropriate for the padishah and to provide matron in honor to notables of the harem, but it was seen that they were educated to be an appropriate wife for both military and bureaucrat class. In this sense it can be said that much importance was attached to the training in the harem. Because it was understood from the records that two types of training were given to the odalisques in the harem as in the palace and outside of the palace.},author={Murat KOCAASLAN},year={2019},journal={Turkish Studies-Social Sciences}}