A EVALUATION ON TRANSFORMATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OTTOMAN STATE

Abstract

Human rights, as a requirement of being a human being, has always maintained its importance. Human rights that
protect the individual against the state and give the individual a certain freedom of freedom in the relations between the
individual and the state; the modern state, the rule of law, the constitutional state and so on. Parallel to developments in
the field of human rights, it is known that the Ottoman Empire experienced some concrete developments especially in
the 19th century. The process that started with Sened-i İttifak was followed by Tanzimat Fermanı, Islahat Fermanı and
Kanun-i Esasi. Throughout the study, developments in human rights in the Ottoman Empire, beginning from the 19th
century to becoming a constitutional state, were discussed through Sened-i İttifak, Tanzimat Fermanı, Islahat Fermanı
and Kanun-i Esasi. The aim of this study is to demonstrate in a critical manner how far human rights have developed in
the constitutional movements in the Ottoman Empire. In the first part of the work, human rights issues are addressed
and the developments in the world of human rights are addressed. In the second part of the study, the developments in
the Ottoman State concerning human rights were examined.