INTEGRATION OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE INTO GLOBAL ECONOMY BETWEEN 1830-1840

This study aims to reveal the internal and external factors that gave rise to the integration of The Ottoman Empire into the global economy between 1830-1840. With this regard, the meaning of the integration into the global economy, the ways for its realization were explained in the initial part of this study. The factors, forces and developments which pushed The Ottoman Empire to integrate the global economy were followingly analyzed. In this context, main finding of this study is as follows: There are basically 6 factors that integrated The Ottoman Empire into the global economy in the period between 1830-1840, and these are as follows: the beginning of sending students to Europe for foreign education (1830), the revolt of the Egyptian Governor Mehmed Ali Pasha (1832), Balta Limanı Treaty (1838) (it has a central position in the construction of this process and in this study), the direct investments of various European states, especially Britain and France to The Ottoman Empire, and The Ottoman foreign debts. Furthermore, global developments that shaped this integration process were also analyzed. With this respect, the scope of this study is the examination of the aforementioned factors and their impacts on the integration of the Empire into the global economy. Secondary sources in the literature were used to analyze the subject. The sources comprise the studies of the most respected intellectual in the field like Berkes, Erdilek, Lewis, Pamuk, Wallerstein.