A PLEADING (LÂYİHA) TENDERING TO ABDÜLHAMID II ABOUT OPENING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN OTTOMAN MOTHERLAND AND INCREASING THE NUMBER OF THOSE SCHOOLS AND REHABILITATING THEM

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The word ‘lâyiha’ is originally ‘lâiha’ in Arabic and it has passed as ‘lâyiha’ in Turkish. Those are the documents which were prepared by especially Ottoman statesmen, who went to Europe in the last periods of Ottoman, about development causes and country issues in Europe and which contain their detections and solutions. Though it isn’t known who submitted the ‘lâyiha’ we discuss, it is most likely to be submitted by Mehmed Sait Paşa (1838-1914), who was the grand vizier of Abdülhamid II and who led to the opening of several new schools and educational innovations, to Abdülhamid II. One of the solutions decided in education according to the related ‘lâyiha’ was building primary schools and increasing and rehabilitating public schools, and it was stated that education would develop by means of building primary schools, supplying the salaries of teachers and yearly costs of schools, ensuring the children’s’ school attendance, and keeping the schooling under supervision.

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Ottoman Empire , Education , Rehabilitation , Lâyiha , Abdülhamid II

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Journal Of Turkish Research Institute