Security studies have so far mainly focused on Western experiences and therefore provide little insight into non-Western insecurities and offer little discussion of the actors, agents, subjects, and objects of security from a global perspective. For a long time, security studies lacked proper historicization, and only recently have scholars embarked upon a discussion of historical actors, threat perceptions, security interests, and other issues. The main aim of this talk is to explore how the perception of security, which was developed within the international system, affected the legal changes and administrative practices of the provincial administration in the Ottoman Empire from Berlin Treaty (1878) to 1908.The present talk aims at contributing to the emerging literature of non-Western security history by highlighting the continuities and ruptures in the security definitions and administrative practices in the late the Ottoman Empire. By doing so this talk examines the interplay between European colonialism and internal colonialism in the Ottoman Empire by analyzing the inter-relationality of the civil and military administration in the eastern provinces.
Mi 05 Feb 2020 | 17:00–18:30
Politics of Security: Discourse and Practice in District Governance During the Late Ottoman Empire
Ilkay Yılmaz (EUME Fellow 2019/20 / Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), Chair: Başak Tuğ (Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at Freie Universität Berlin / EUME Fellow 2013/14)
Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin
Since January 2020 İlkay Yılmaz is a EUME Fellow affiliated with the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. She received her PhD from Istanbul Universtiy in 2012. Her dissertation, “Security Policies and Geographical Mobilization during the Hamidian Era (1876-1908)”, is based on intensive research conducted in Ottoman archives and published in 2015. She was a visiting doctoral fellow at Leiden University between 2009 and 2010. She worked as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Istanbul University between 2014 and 2017. She was a visiting research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient between 2014-2015 and 2017-2019. Her research and teaching interests include state-formation, comparative empires, security policies and police institution of the late Ottoman Empire, the history of Ottoman passports, the Armenian Question, the administrative history of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.
