OSMANLI SAVAŞ EKONOMİSİ VE BİR MUHALEFET PROGRAMI OLARAK TEMSİL-İ MESLEKÎ: İMPARATORLUĞUN SON YILLARINDA SERMAYEİKTİDAR İLİŞKİLERİ ÜZERİNE NOTLAR
OTTOMAN WAR ECONOMY AND THE REPRESENTATION OF PROFESSIONS PROGRAM: NOTES ON THE STATE-CAPITAL RELATIONS IN THE FINAL YEARS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Summary/Abstract: This essay deals with the economic and political conditions of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. It concentrates on two closely related issues. First, it examines how a financial-military network began to dominate the Ottoman war economy towards the end of 1916 by looking at the formation of the National Credit Bank. Second, it discusses the political context that emerged in the final years of the empire with the rise of military-financial hegemony. This question is addressed by reference to the Representation of Professions program, which was formulated in the Great War years and which became an important reference for the major ideological debates of the national struggle period. The Representation of Professions program is examined in the context of the power-opposition relations that developed in the last years of the war rather than its ideological aspects or intellectual origins. The main argument emphasized in this essay is that the Representation of Professions reflected an opposition attitude in the prevailing balance of power. As an alternative to the dominant coalition controlling the war economy, it proposed the transformation of the political regime based on corporatist principles.

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