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Abstract enSultan Mahmud II was the first Ottoman Sultan sending students to abroad. When it was followed only a policy towards military aims in the beginning, the education abroad has been opened to the other fields with the influence of the comprehensive reforms especially in the period of Tanzimat. Sultan Abdulhamid II has considered the policy of education abroad fairly like his predecessors. However, beginning from 1890’s the Young Turcs’ effective campaign against the regime by means of the press has affected the education abroad policy of Sultan Abdulhamit II negatively. As a result, except for the military field and a few civilians the study abroad were canceled.This study is based on many documents in the various catalogues in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives and the biographic sources. In this article firstly it will be research that how many students were sent to which countries in the period of Sultan Abdulhamid II. Then it will be analized the education fields, the identities and scientific contributions of the students. Our aim is to determine the character of Abdulhamid’s policy on the study abroad. In this respect it will be tried to Young Turcs’ roles on this policy

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