Adventure Of Two Turkish Dynasties Privatization: Tobacco Privileges And Reactions On The Ottoman Empire And Kaçar Sultanate


European capitalism influenced the Turkic Lands especially the Ottoman Empire deeply in the 19th century. The European capitalist expansion beginning with the enterprises of infra-structure and culmination in the foreign debt load had some detrimental results for the economic independence of the Western Turkic Lands. One of the channels of the European capitalist enterprise in the Turkic Lands was the privatization of the tobacco agriculture. The management of the tobacco agriculture was given to a company of three European partners for 30 years in 1883. In 1913, this period is extended by mutual agreement for another 15 years. Régie Administration (Tobacco monopoly) has a multinational management employees were members of more than one nation. Tobacco Monopoly Administration against the Ottoman Period, farmers, workers and artisans are very important for the history of the resistance effort.But it became a state monopoly in 1925 by the Republic of Turkey. Despite the popular discontent, the privatize regulation of the tobacco agriculture continued. Similarly, the Kaçar Sultanate in Iran gave the administration of the tobacco industry to an English company for 15 years in 1890. This attempt of privatization was abolished in 1891 upon the resistance of the union consisted of tobacco traders and peasants headed by the ulema (religious scholars). This paper puts forward that the relation between the state and the religion reveals the most crucial reason why foreign enterprise in tobacco agriculture lasted for 42 years in the Ottoman Empire while it was obstructed in the Turkish Sultanate in Iran.


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Ottoman, Kaçar, Tobacco, Régie, Ulema

Author : Erdoğan KESKİNKILIÇ
Number of pages: 175-192
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.5712
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Journal of Turkish Studies
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