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The Ottoman state's relationship with potentially problematic foreign visitors from merchants and missionaries to spies and refugees is well documented. But what happened when a foreigner residing in the Ottoman Empire committed an "ordinary" crime such as theft, disorderly conduct, murder, or rape? This podcast explores 5 such cases through documents found in the archival record over the course of the nineteenth century. These cases vary greatly in gravity but whether a nineteen-year old French Algerian or American diplomat, all of our actors share the status of Westerners getting into trouble within the Ottoman domains.
Documents include: foreigners partying loudly, Saint-Simonians harassing women in Istanbul, man accused of group sodomy, German citizen administering illegal abortions, and American consul accused of raping a child
Documents include: foreigners partying loudly, Saint-Simonians harassing women in Istanbul, man accused of group sodomy, German citizen administering illegal abortions, and American consul accused of raping a child
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Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Sam Dolbee is a PhD student in the department of Middle East Studies at New York University
Click here to view the original article in Tozsuz Evrak, our primary source blog or check out these documents first hand by clicking on the images below:
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