Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190841577
- eISBN:
- 9780197523322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190841577.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, Cultural History
Chapter 8 examines temperance and prohibition history within the Ottoman Empire and secular Turkey. Drinking and viticulture were widespread throughout the empire, though the trade was often in the ...
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Chapter 8 examines temperance and prohibition history within the Ottoman Empire and secular Turkey. Drinking and viticulture were widespread throughout the empire, though the trade was often in the hands of non-Muslims. The Ottoman liquor traffic even became integral to the European-run Ottoman Public Debt Administration. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was among the drunkest leaders in world history, yet Atatürk and the secular Turkish government in Ankara embraced prohibitionism as a means of denying badly needed alcohol revenues to the Christians occupying their lands—most notably the British controlling Istanbul and the Greeks around Smyrna. Turkish prohibition expanded across Anatolia, as Atatürk liberated Turkey’s occupied territories. Only in 1924, with the end of foreign occupation, was the Kemalist prohibition rescinded, and replaced with a national alcohol monopoly, in which the financial benefits of the liquor trade would accrue to the Turkish state, not to foreigners.Less
Chapter 8 examines temperance and prohibition history within the Ottoman Empire and secular Turkey. Drinking and viticulture were widespread throughout the empire, though the trade was often in the hands of non-Muslims. The Ottoman liquor traffic even became integral to the European-run Ottoman Public Debt Administration. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was among the drunkest leaders in world history, yet Atatürk and the secular Turkish government in Ankara embraced prohibitionism as a means of denying badly needed alcohol revenues to the Christians occupying their lands—most notably the British controlling Istanbul and the Greeks around Smyrna. Turkish prohibition expanded across Anatolia, as Atatürk liberated Turkey’s occupied territories. Only in 1924, with the end of foreign occupation, was the Kemalist prohibition rescinded, and replaced with a national alcohol monopoly, in which the financial benefits of the liquor trade would accrue to the Turkish state, not to foreigners.
Stefan Winter
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190458119
- eISBN:
- 9780190618520
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190458119.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
The history of the Alawis in the Ottoman period is usually presented as one of discrimination, impoverishment and constant persecution. This contribution, rather than relying on the narrative ...
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The history of the Alawis in the Ottoman period is usually presented as one of discrimination, impoverishment and constant persecution. This contribution, rather than relying on the narrative chronicles or oral accounts of the period, concentrates on the wealth of Ottoman administrative documents referring to the Alawis to be found in the Basbakanlik and the Tripoli Shari’a Court archives. In doing so it seeks to show that the Alawis enjoyed quasi-recognition as a sectarian community, that they made extensive use of the Ottoman court system, and that they were characterized by a high degree of social stratification including a landed gentry co-opted by the Ottoman state.Less
The history of the Alawis in the Ottoman period is usually presented as one of discrimination, impoverishment and constant persecution. This contribution, rather than relying on the narrative chronicles or oral accounts of the period, concentrates on the wealth of Ottoman administrative documents referring to the Alawis to be found in the Basbakanlik and the Tripoli Shari’a Court archives. In doing so it seeks to show that the Alawis enjoyed quasi-recognition as a sectarian community, that they made extensive use of the Ottoman court system, and that they were characterized by a high degree of social stratification including a landed gentry co-opted by the Ottoman state.
