A Report Given to Sultan Abdülmecid on the Political State of Egypt during Mehmed Ali Pasha Uprising

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When Ottoman Empire started to lose its power, it was subjected to interventions of many states of internal and external powers which considered this situation as an opportunity. Every incident started to become one of the internal affairs of the state and transformed into an international matter. Naturally in international issues, powerful states have made decisions in relation to their own interests and Ottoman Empire started to dissolve gradually. During the first periods of the afore-mentioned era, although some states, again in relation to their own interests, gave their decision regarding the protection of the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, soon after they changed their minds in order to obtain the rich territories of the Empire and share the heritage of the ‘Sick Man’. The successive defeats of the Empire and the contracts with heavy sanctions they signed did not let the Ottomans to build up and the state has lost its power gradually. Mehmed Ali Pasha uprising which occurred between 1831 and 1841 is one of those issues. The issue of Egypt which firstly started as an internal uprising as a result of a dispute between the Ottoman Empire and the governor of Egypt Mehmed Ali Pasha, turned out to be an extensive inter-state issue in which European States’ imperialistic desires were involved later. In the end, this issue has been reorganized as Egypt’s autonomous condition in an inter-state conference in London and later Ottoman Empire lost its another Mediterranean state. In the report discussed in this study which was written in the last phase of Mehmed Ali Pasha uprising and written by Ramiz Paşazâde İzzet, the relations between Ottoman Empire and Egypt as well as the interventions of the foreign states and the incidents have been discussed. The report is significant in terms of touching upon the issues such as why France helped Egypt, the activities of Mehmed Ali Pasha in order to have support and the influence of the incidents occurred during those chaotic days upon both the common people and the well-educated class.

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Ramiz Paşazâde İzzet , the Issue of Egypt , Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Paşa , the Report.

Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences