@article{2013,title={The Impacts Of Tripolitanian And Balkan Wars On The Ottoman Foreign Trade},abstractNode={The last ten years of the Ottoman State witnessed successive wars. These ten years began with the Tripolitanian War, which was a Turkish-Italian war, and ended with the Balkan Wars, World War I and Turkish War of Independence. These wars led to deterioration of political and economic conditions of the state and eventually to its fall. The Tripoli and Balkan Wars deeply influenced foreign policy and trade of the Ottoman State. The Tripolitanian War began in 1911 when Italy invaded Tripolitania and caused tension in the Ottoman-Italian economic relations even for a while. The same boycott, previously implemented by the Ottoman State against Austrian goods as a result of Bosnia and Herzegovina invasion of Austria-Hungary in 1908, was implemented against Italian goods in 1911. The idea of boycott initially came up in the press, because the government was late to declare war against Italy. However Babıâli could not prevent Italian goods entering the country due to capitulations, therefore resorted to increase the customs duties taken from Italian goods. This policy continued until the peace treaty in 1912. In 1912 the Ottoman State found itself at war with the Balkan League, an alliance formed by the Balkan States (Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia) led by Bulgaria. Babıâli entered this war without any preparation and during the war Babıâli on the one hand tried to meet army’s needs and on the other hand tried to take precautions by reviewing its economic relations with these countries. As a first step, like in the Tripolitanian War, Babıâli increased the customs duties applied during trade activities with these Balkan countries and later boycott was implemented against them by the Ottoman State. This policy continued until the peace treaties in 1913 and ended after the peace. In this study we will try to answer how these wars affected the foreign trade of the Ottoman State. The impact of these wars on the import and export relations between Italy/Balkan States and Ottoman State will be analyzed based on the data from foreign policy statistics.},author={Filiz ÇOLAK},year={2013},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}