Özet:

It is a known fact that the Ottoman Empire had a multinational structure and considered non-Muslim people as their own citizens. The Non-Muslims living in the Ottoman Empire were born, educated, started to work in these lands and even some of them took important duties at various levels of the state. Non-Muslims living in the Ottoman Empire usually had their primary education in the schools of the community they belong to. Thus they learned the basic principles of their religion and languages. The Ottoman Empire gave the civil service right to the Non-Muslims during the period after the Tanzimat Reform Era, they continued their higher education in order to take duty in these jobs in the schools opened by the Ottoman Empire. In this study, biography of Nicolas Aghnides, was born in one of small cities Anatolia, Niğde, and came to Istanbul for higher education and became successful as a result of exam holded by the Ottoman Empire, and went to America, his travel to America and his artworks were examined in the light of records in Ottoman and American archives. While obtaining information about Aghnides who is an Ottoman along with this study, it will be possible to obtain information related to the 20th century minority policy through Ottoman's positive attitude on a Non-Muslim Greek got free training in America.

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