Osmanlı Ermenilerinde kültür modernleşmesi, cemaat okulları ve Abdülhamid rejimi

Abstract

This article discusses the relationship between the Armenian community and the Ottoman administration during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1908) in terms of cultural and educational developments among the Armenians. The thematic focus is on the political conditions following the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878, the emerging Armenian nationalism, and the repressive measures of the Ottoman administration on Armenian schools as a means of preventing the emergence of a new generation of separatist-minded Armenians. It is argued that this tension and confrontation between the Sublime Porte and the Armenian nationalist cadre displayed the basic impossibility for the continuation of an autocratic multi-ethnic empire in the age of ethnic nationalism.