By the end of the course the students will learn:

- The changes came with the Tanzimat Reforms in institutional, political, socio-economic structure of the late Ottoman Empire (1850-1914).

- the constitutional experiences in the Ottoman Empire (1876, 1908).

- the birth of nationalist and revolutionary political organizations (Young Ottomans and Young Turks and the revolutionary ethnic societies).

- The cultural and political interaction between the Ottoman Empire and Europe and the impact of this interaction on the Ottoman state apparatus and on the Ottoman society.

- the effects of the world politics on the Ottoman world and on its foreign policies.