Özet:

The Ottoman Customs Administration, Rüsûmât Emaneti, decided to employ women's collar at the customs doors at the land and coastal borders located in Anatolia and Rumeli in the early 1900s. Customs collary was the second collary experience for Ottoman women after they were employed as collary in women's prisons. But women's coat employment was a new experience for the Ottoman customs authorities but was also compulsory. For women passengers entering the coastal and border customs were found to have missed the items that are subject to the permission of bringing or expelling to the country with any kind of written and printed documents with weapons, explosive materials and political content. In fact, the Ottoman Empire has been trafficking since a very ancient period. However, women’s trafficking has been widely seen since the late 19th century. While economic and political conditions were effective on the basis of this trafficking, the main reason for women to do or use this job was the prohibition for male officials at the Ottoman customs doors to control women’s passengers. This is why the Ottoman Customs Administration wanted to prevent women fraudsters by employing women's collars. This employment was also an important measure to ensure the country’s customs income and security. In addition, with this employment, the Ottoman women, on the one hand, got the opportunity to work, while on the other hand, they protected the country’s economic and political interests with the duty of the customs authority. This article was prepared in the Ottoman Customs in the early 1900s with the aim of studying the women's coal employment and the events and conditions that require this employment. The article will also examine the characteristics of the customs doors to which women's collars were assigned in Anadolu and Rumeli and the detected trafficking incidents and the contribution of women's collars to the prevention of trafficking.

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