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Politics & Diplomacy
The Last Guests in the Twilight: Visits of World War I Allies to Dolmabahçe Palace
28 September 2025
The visits made by the allied emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary to Dolmabahçe Palace during the years of World War…
Ambassadors and Emperors: How Did a State Visit Protocol Work in Dolmabahçe Palace?
28 September 2025
Hosting a foreign head of state or ambassador at Dolmabahçe Palace operated within the framework of a perfect state visit…
The Bâb-ı Âli Raid: How the Rule of the Three Pashas Seized Power from the Palace and the Government?
28 September 2025
The Bâb-ı Âli Raid of January 23, 1913, is much more than a mere government coup in Ottoman history. This…
The Colonels of “The Sick Man”: Mahmud Şevket Pasha and the Entry of an Army into Politics
28 September 2025
The Army of Action (Hareket Ordusu), which marched on Istanbul after the declaration of the Constitutional Era (Meşrutiyet), and its…
The Man Who Wrote the Constitution: Mithat Pasha’s Rise and Tragic Fall
27 September 2025
Mithat Pasha is the 19th-century's most reformist and most tragic statesman, who gifted the Ottoman Empire its first constitution (Kanun-i…
The Sultan’s Bankers: The Galata Bankers Who Managed Dolmabahçe’s Luxury and the Empire’s Debts
27 September 2025
The construction and financing of Dolmabahçe Palace was made possible not only by the Sultan's will or the state treasury,…
The Sultan’s Unseeing Eyes: Sultan II Abdülhamid’s Spy Network and the Intelligence Web Managed from the Palace
27 September 2025
Sultan II Abdülhamid ruled the empire through the Hafiye Teşkilatı (Spy Network), his "unseeing eyes and unhearing ears." This vast…
The Empire’s Last Diplomats: How Âli Pasha and Fuad Pasha Won Wars with the Pen
27 September 2025
In the mid-19th century, during a period when the Ottoman Empire was known as the "Sick Man of Europe," and…
Not the Sultan’s Servant, but the Architect of the State: How the Grand Vizierate Became More Powerful Than the Palace in the Dolmabahçe Era
27 September 2025
During the Dolmabahçe Palace era, as a result of the Tanzimat reforms, the grand vizierate broke free from the Sultan's…