This study aims to examine the political, economic,
cultural and social events that occurred in Trabzon, an important provincial
city that had a uniquely multicultural population consisting of Turks,
Greeks, Armenians and a smaller number of Iranians. The timeframe of the
study is the first six years (1908-1914) of the Second Constitutional Period,
a time when changes and transformations were occurring at an unprecedented
rate in Ottoman lands. This study takes as its subject the developments that
occurred in Trabzon.
Within the scope of this study, a wide range of issues are discussed in light
of the changes that were occurring under the leadership of the Committee of
Union and Progress, including the activities of the Unionists, the
relationship between the center and the periphery, how local nobles perceived
the Committee of Union and Progress and its politics as well as vice versa,
and the extent to which the Committee’s political, cultural, economic and
social policies had an impact on local life. In short, the main aim of this
study is to bring to light the political, economic, cultural and social
changes and transformations that occurred in Trabzon under the Committee’s
leadership between 1908 and 1914.
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