Özet:

Research on the Ottoman-English relations has re-increased in recent years. This direction of interest has made the documents related to the Ottoman history preserved in the British National Archives (TNA) even more remarkable. The archive contains a significant amount of documents for diplomatic and trade relations between the two countries. In addition to diplomatic relations, it is also possible to examine the activities of the Levant Company traders, in the Ottoman ports and cities, through these archive documents. Since the establishment of the first relations between the two states in 1580, the Embassy of Istanbul and the Consulates in the Ottoman cities, the mutual communications from the British Foreign Office and the Levant Company Center are the basis of these archive documents. This accumulation lasted until 1780 in TNA’s State Papers (SP.) The name is preserved. It is divided into three subtitles. In this article, SP. Based on the topics of these archive documents in the design, the content analysis and promotion will be examined by the source values in terms of the Ottoman-English commercial relations, mainly in the 18th century.