Title: 18. yüzyıl Osmanlı'da savaş esirleri
Description: In the Ottoman Empire, prisoners of war did not only include soldiers captured on the battlefield, but were an important part of the slave population in the Ottoman Empire with the women, men and children taken prisoner from the region. Who were these prisoners, how were they held captive? How were they distributed to the Ottoman geography? What kind of a process was waiting for them after capturing and deciding what to do during captivity? Fatma Sel Turhan has detailed analysis of how the war prisoner issue was applied in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century. Within this scope, from the Karchofan to the Age, the prisoners of the Ottomans in the battles subject to the treaties, from the captives in the dungeons to the captives in the slave status, the geographies in which they were separated from their identities, the owners of what they experienced in the evictions carried out by the treaties and the difficulties encountered by these processes, In the light of an archival material, it focuses on understanding the concept of captivity in the Ottoman Empire.
Subjects: Prisoners of war, Legal status, laws, History, Slaves
Places: Turkey
Time periods: 18th century