Özet:

Non-muslims had been employed within the various units of the bureaucratical mechanism of the Ottoman Empire. After the period of Tanzimat the obstacles which prevented the acceptance of the non-muslims to the bureaucratical body of the state had been thrown away. Especially the ideology of Ottomanism which aims to protect the non-muslims from the catastrophic effects of the nationalism and to create a conscience of the citizenship provides to welcome of the non-muslims to the imperial bureaucracy. From this point of view, the Ottoman Foreign Ministry was one of the leading institutions which accepted the non-muslim population because of its need towards the qualified translators who were quite aware of the foreign language. The target of the belove paper is to indicate the story of the Armenian bureaucrats in the hierarchy of the Foreign Ministry. Thus, it will be underlined the change in the ethnical structure of the Ottoman bureaucracy by means of the period of Tanzimat.

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