The Reign of Sultan Abdulaziz in the American Press by Ercan KARAKOÇ, Gökhan DURAK

“…The last period of the Empire was examined with different documents by giving a new perspective to the Ottoman history.…”
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Some Reviews Regarding the Resource Value of Campaign Ruznamçe Registers and Budgets from the Ottoman Military-Financial History Sources (Late XVI. Century and Early XVII. Century)... by Süleyman Polat

“…One of the main reasons of the success of the Ottoman Empire in wars was the successful campaign organizations. …”
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Inevitable Choice for Survival: The Last Ottoman Grand Strategy by Murat TOMAN, Fikrettin YAVUZ

“…This study examines the Ottoman’s new revised grand strategy had emerged during the first half of the nineteenth century in order to secure the survival of empire. …”
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A Letter from a Tatar warrior to his wife by Abibullaeva E.E.

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Ottoman Hunting Organization of Silistra Sanjak in The 16th Century by Mustafa ALKAN, Ferdi GÖKBUĞA

“…While hunting in traditional societies, was most commonly practised as a profession, for food, sports or entertainment, it was fully a part of Ottoman State organization as a military exercise or war game. …”
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Crimean-Ottoman Factor in the Socio-Cultural System of Russia in Early Modern Times by T. V. Chernikova

“…But the transfer of the agrarian center to the south was restrained by the constant military danger from the Wild Field, which was part of the Horde, and then the Crimean Khanate, backed until the end of the 18 century by the Ottoman Empire, perceiving the Black Sea with its “inland lake”. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…His ambitions to expand military power, however, intensified with the introduction of Weltpolitik, which was the imperialist foreign policy to make German Empire a world power. …”
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Proclamation of the All-Russian Empire – the Beginning of the Way to the Great Power Status by V. A. Artamonov

“…Russia was not a great power like the Habsburg monarchy, France, Great Britain, and the Eurasian-African Ottoman Empire. Russia could not compare with the great powers of that time neither in terms of economic (industrial, financial) power, nor in terms of the intensity of expansionism. …”
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History of Turkish Air Force Aviation School and the Process of Transition to Air Force Academy by Osman YALÇIN

“…Turkish aviation has been built upon the ruins of the last wars of Ottoman Empire. After the invasion of the British and the French, Ottoman aviators moved to Maltepe and then to various parts of Anatolia eventually. …”
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The Greek Revolution of 1821 and Russian Policy in the Eastern Question by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…Ineffective European actions resulted in the fact that Russian government was forced to radically change its policy on the Greek issue and declare its determination to take independent steps to resolve the Greek issue and start military operations against the Ottoman Empire.The Greek uprising of 1821 became the central event of the 1820s. in the Balkans. …”
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Osmanlı Devleti’nde Zorunlu Askerliğe Direniş: ‘Muînsiz’ Efrad Problemi by Rıza ÖZBÖLÜK

“…The conscription that was put into effect in 1846, in the Ottoman Empire, could not be implemented at the desired level due to conflicts between priorities of the state and socioeconomic realities of the society. …”
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Russia of PeterI: Gaining Great Power Status by P. A. Krotov

“…The great power position of Russia and its new role in international relations began to find its reflection in the treaties between the leading European powers before the official recognition as an empire. International treaties of Russia with France, Austria, Prussia, Rzeczpospolita, Sweden, China, the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate show that for the first time, the new role of Russia as a great power, as the guarantor of the common Eu- ropean contractual system after the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 / 1702-1714) was enshrined in the Amsterdam Treaty (1717), which was concluded between Russia, France, and Prussia. …”
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SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF FOREIGN POLICY OF NICHOLAS I (ACCORDING THE MEMORIES OF CONTEMPORARIES) by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…They noted some traits of his personality, political views, commitment to order and military service. They left valuable remembrance about all important foreign-policy cases the Russian Emperor was involved in: Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829), contacts with the Balkan states, Eastern Question within the framework of the Russian role in the course of events of the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1832–1833); hostility against French Revolutions and contacts with the allied Prussia and the Austrian Empire. …”
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Vuk S. Karadžić: Srbi všetci a všade. Od juhoslovanstva k myšlienke “Veľkého Srbska” by Maroš Melichárek

“…The first possibility is that Vuk Karadžič consciously increased the number of Serbs to the detriment of Croats and Bosnian Muslims or Slav Muslims in the Ottoman Empire. We may also consider the fact that Vuk Karadžič to some extent adopted the ideas of prominent European Slavicists (Kopitar, Šafárik, Dobrovský and others). …”
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Obraz křesťanského rytíře? Turcika ve šlechtických zbrojnicích raného novověku by Vítězslav Prchal

“… Early modern society of Central Europe had to cope with being a neighbor to the Ottoman Empire, which represented a vastly different culture and/or civilization. …”
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