ИЗВЕШТАЈИ ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКОГ ДЕЛЕГАТА У ЦАРИГРАДУ О АБОЛИЦИЈИ ШЕРИЈАТА У ТУРСКОЈ 1924. ГОДИНЕ С ОСВРТОМ НА СИТУАЦИЈУ У КРАЉЕВИНИ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈИ
REPORTS FROM THE YUGOSLAV DELEGATE IN CONSTANTINOPLE ON THE ABOLITION OF THE SHARIA IN TURKEY IN 1924, WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE SITUATION IN THE KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA

Summary/Abstract: Until 1926 and the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Turkey, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had a delegate of the royal government in Constantinople in the capacity of a chargé d’affaires from 1919, as well as a consular representative from 1923. From 1922 to 1926, the role of a delegate, i.e. chargé d’affaires, was performed by Trajan Živković, a Serbian and Yugoslav diplomat born in the vicinity of Tetovo. His almost daily reports on the situation in Turkey during the post-war years and the reforms being implemented in the country represent an immeasurable contribution to understanding the events of Republic of Turkey’s formative period. Under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha Atatürk, the Republic sought in every way to break with its Ottoman past. This paper contains three such documents concerning the issue of Islamic religious law – the sharia, and the announcement of its abolition in the Republic of Turkey. Their common characteristic is an emphasis on the attitude of Yugoslav Muslims towards traditional Ottoman and Islamic customs, primarily the sharia, which became an integral part of the legal system of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the very moment it was about to be abolished in Turkey.

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