Özet:

The first serious arrangements concerning the collection of ancient works and trafficking in the Ottoman State were launched after the Tanzimat Ferman, which was declared in 1839 under the leadership of the bureaucratic light group. For a century ago, the Ottoman bureaucrates, who began to find the opportunity to know Europe closely in the Ottoman State’s relations with the West, realized the importance of Greek-Roman works in terms of European cultural values. The increasing interest of Europeans in the historical works taken from the Ottoman territory since the 19th century and the increasing interest of this country in becoming an important instrument of foreign policy has made it inevitable for Ottoman bureaucrates to make new arrangements after the Tanzimat. Therefore, the Ottoman State will, from 1840, adopt its ancient work policy as entering, on the one hand, the Greek-Roman works which they already possess, into the club of nations which claim to be the cultural inheritors of the ancient world, and on the other hand, to incorporate the archaeological works revealed in the Ottoman land into the Ottoman heritage. From this point of view, the discovery and the kidnapping of treasures by Schliemann will attract the attention of the Ottoman rulers who have developed a particular attitude in this regard as well as the worldwide. However, in the vast majority of the studies to date, this incident has not been compared with the data presented by the archive documents of the Ottoman State, which have been presented on the basis of Heinrich Schliemann’s diaries, draft notes, books and documents provided by foreign sources, and on the one-sided point of view. However, the fact that appears when the Ottoman documents are examined, provides important data that will contribute to the re-evaluation of the events of the kidnapping of Heinrich Schliemann and Trojan treasures and to the highlight of the great effort the Ottoman State has made to recover the treasures.

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