Özet:

The child, weak and weak in terms of construction and creation, needs the care and protection of others to continue his life. The fact that the child cannot have an effective power in the society in which he lives has reduced the importance and interest given to him. The weakness and weakness have sometimes led the child to experience physical and spiritual suffering and even to be deprived of the right to life. The Islamic understanding has made warnings about the protection and rights of the child and has taken strict measures. The Ottoman state and society have tried to take care of the protection of children with the contribution of the Islamic warning and measures. But, as in every society, in the Ottoman society, despite all warnings and measures, children have been exposed to unfair and bad treatment. The military, diplomatic, social and economic problems that emerged in the last period of the Ottoman State have most affected the children. Thousands of children who lost their families due to wars and migrations have fallen in an unfamiliar and necessary state. The lack of traditional institutions created for the protection of children has made it compulsory to develop new institutions and concepts on the protection of unfamiliar children. In this way, the Ottoman state has opened institutions such as the slaughterhouse and the orphanage. However, especially children who have been separated from their families or who have died of their families due to wars and migrations have been the target of some of the Ottoman State’s non-Musulmans and some of the foreign citizens. The evil foreigners and non-Muslims, who profited of the confusion and the emptiness of authority brought by the war environment, forced and fraudulently captured Muslim children and attacked their religions and ideas, so that they made the child an element of war. The Ottoman governments of the time tried to prevent the falsification of their religion and ideas by falling into the hands of foreign and non-Muslim children. But it cannot be said that this can be done exactly. Because in cases such as increasing diplomatic pressure and losing wars, the Ottoman governments have been weak at times in preventing foreign and non-Muslim interventions against Muslim children. The study deals with the situation of children who are disabled and in need for various reasons in the Ottoman State and the activities of non-Muslims and foreigners on disabled children. The study took advantage of the Presidential Ottoman Archive records and literature related to unnamed children in the Ottoman State.

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