Osmanlı Devleti’nin Son Döneminde Galatasaray Tevkifhanesi
Galatasaray Prison in the Last Days of Ottoman Empire

Summary/Abstract: After Industrial revolution, labor power has been increased dramatically and the governments have worked on the population issue. Places peopled in the whole country was like the laboratory for them to access data related to people and their circumstances, to comprehend the nature of human behaviors. Therefore, the progress caused a paradigm shift for most particularly administrative mentality. In the meantime, factories, prisons, schools fabricated the political discourse for capital and governments with the new political- administrative tendency. In Western Europe, as one of these institutions, prisons as well as the punishment system applied there were reversed and restructured for controlling the population. In the Tanzimat Era, Ottoman bureaucracy like many other countries applied the prison reformation. Subsequently, dungeons with working on torture were overturned to modern prison in Ottoman Empire. The modern prison and punishment system of Western Europe have similarly been tried to copy to the empire. This study aims to explain how to work the prisons in the premodern period and the transformations during the Tanzimat Era in the Ottoman Empire. Thereafter, it focuses on the history of Beyoğlu Prison which is located nearby Galatasaray High School. Depending on the Ottoman Archives, in 1919, the prison break narratives in the prison and the vivid neighborhood with the school will be discussed as well.

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