Özet:

The process of democratization in the Ottoman Empire, which started too late in comparison with Europe, has not been able to find a way to democratize itself as much as the social field and the concept of democracy has not meant much for the people. Democratization for the Ottoman state was conceived as a means of keeping minorities in the state and preventing the dissolution, and often external pressures were used as a means of solving the ending internal problems. While the formation of an intellectual class in the Tanzimat Period were the efforts to create public opinion through the press have been promising, Tanzime and Reform Edicts took place as a result of the efforts of the palace bureaucracy, not the popular movements. People often do not even realize the rights given to them legally. The weak success of democratic thought is the introduction of a twostage electoral system with the Basic Law. However, a thirty-year follow-up of despotism immediately afterwards shows that the constitutional government has not been adopted by the people. The most important result of the one hundred year-period which has been examined is the revision of Constitution in 1908 and the amendment in 1909. The people who carried out the National Struggle and founded the Republic grew up in this process

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