THE FIRST BANK IN THE OTTOMAN STATE - Dersaadet Bank, Merchants and Business Networks

In this book, the changing economic financial conditions in the Ottoman Empire after the declaration of the Tanzimat Ferman, both in terms of its content and social, legal and economic influence, were shaped around the idea of ​​establishing a bank, which was one of the new practices for that period. As a matter of fact, the idea of ​​'establishing a state bank' for the Ottomans and the dynamics and intellectual infrastructure of its implementation is an important economic history event that needs to be examined.
This book in your hand examines the organizational characteristics of Dersaadet Bank, the first example of the Ottoman banking activities started in the second half of the 19th century, and the economic conditions of the period in which it started to operate, as well as the financial and commercial dimensions of its mission, with the help of Ottoman archive sources. This study has tried to show how the trade and business networks of the Tanzimat Period were shaped through financial markets, the nature of the entrepreneurial networks owned by the partnerships of merchants and bankers, and what features they contain in this sense, through the records of Dersaadet Bankası. This book, which can be considered as an essay on the purpose of the bank's establishment, the close relationship of the policy transactions it carried out with foreign trade and the Ottoman monetary system, and the revealing of the Ottoman entrepreneurial business networks through this experience, gives the reader a thematic overview of the 'Ottoman History of Economics, Business and Finance' literature. offers pain.