II. Abdülhamid ve İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti Yıllarında Osmanlı’da Yoksul Kadınlar ve Fuhuş Düzenlemeleri (1876- 1918)
Poor Women and Prostitution Regulations in the Ottoman Empire during the Years of Abdlhamid II and the Committee of Union and Progress (1876-1918)

Summary/Abstract: Prostitution is one of the most neglected topics in Ottoman and Turkish historiography. However, many recent studies have changed this taboo. The aim of this study is to evaluate the two prostitution regulations published in the last period of the Ottoman Empire in terms of content and purpose. The first prostitution regulation was published in 1879, just after the 1877-78 Ottoman-Russian War, but it is a very short and experimental publication. The 1884 Regulation is actually the first comprehensive prostitution regulation of the Ottoman Empire. One of the aims of this study is to figure out why Abdülhamid II’s government needed such a regulation. The second importantpart of this article is the 1915 Regulation published by the Committee of Union and Progress at the beginning of the First World War. It will be searched in this study why no other regulations were published from 1884 to 1915. In addition, it is obvious that the CUP aimed for social changes, this study looks at the changes from the perspective of poor women and will focus on the goals of various associations and societies established under the power of the CUP in terms of women and young girls.

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