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Since the ancient period opiom and its outcome opium is one of most noteworthy and oldest medical and industruial product in the world history. Despite the longest history, nearly 5000 years, as a result of finding out the features of its such as addiction, some conferences had been arranged to restrict the production and consuption of it firstly in Shanghai 1909 and then in Hague 1912, 1913, and 1914. These conferences had been followed also by the Ottoman Empire as a producer and seller country in the world. The resulotions of them are so important for not only the Ottoman Empire but also the other country all over world in terms of the Empire and the competition of them. In this sense this study made an effort to shed light firstly the history of the opium after giving the historical backround, it is going to discuss the conferences to understand the manner of nations for opium in this period. In the second part of the study, the article focuses on the Ottoman Empire and surveys the approach of the Empire during the period of meetings in the light of archive documents

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