Ottoman passports : security and geographic mobility, 1876-1908 /
İlkay Yılmaz.
- Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2023.
- pages cm
- Modern intellectual and political history in the Middle East .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In Ottoman Passports, Ilkay Yilmaz reconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through the lens of mobility restrictions during the late Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1908. Yilmaz investigates how Ottoman security perceptions and travel regulations were directly linked to transnational security regimes battling against anarchism. The Hamidian government targeted "internal threats" to the regime with security policies that created new categories of suspects benefiting from the concepts of vagrant, conspirator, and anarchist. Yilmaz explores how mobility restrictions and the use of passports became critical to targeting groups including Armenians, Bulgarians, seasonal and foreign workers, and revolutionaries.
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Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918.
Passports--History.--Turkey National security--Law and legislation--History.--Turkey Migration, Internal--Law and legislation--History.--Turkey Residential mobility--History.--Turkey
Turkey--Politics and government--1878-1909--Sources. Turkey--Foreign relations--Sources.