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- Title
BAŞIBOZUK SAVAŞÇIDAN 'MAKBUL' TEBAAYA: 1877-1878 OSMANLI-RUS SAVAŞI'NDA OSMANLI ORDUSUNDA ÇERKEZ MUHACİRLER.
- Authors
BEŞİKÇİ, Mehmet
- Abstract
Within the context of the Ottoman irregular warfare experience in the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878, this article focuses on the issue of Circassian immigrants' voluntary military service in the Ottoman army. This voluntary service shaped a specific relationship between Circassian immigrants and the Ottoman state, and this article aims to analyze the military and social dimensions of this relationship in a synthetic way. The article investigates why and how Circassian volunteers were employed as auxiliary troops in the Ottoman army and what sorts of roles they undertook during the war. The issue of voluntary military service is situated within a framework of an alliance that began to shape between Circassian immigrants and the Ottoman state during the war. On the one hand, the state sought possible ways of using this potentially anti-Russian population for military purposes, and, on the other hand, Circassians themselves regarded their voluntary support to the Ottoman army as a catalyst of their integration into their new homeland, a means of increasing their social status, and a promoter of their dialogue with the Ottoman state. However, this article does not take this alliance as taken-for-granted, but problematize it as a process of negotiation, in which Circassian immigrants also had a certain degree of agency vis-à-vis the state authority.
- Publication
Hacettepe University Journal of Turkish Studies / HÜTAD Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Arastirmalari Dergisi, 2015, Issue 23, p85
- ISSN
1305-5992
- Publication type
Article