XVIII. YÜZYILDA OSMANLI DEVLETİ İLE RUSYA ARASINDA YAŞANAN TAHIL TİCARETİ SORUNU (1768-1792)
THE GRAIN TRADE PROBLEM BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND RUSSIA IN THE 18TH CENTURY (1768-1792)

Summary/Abstract: The Ottoman Empire was vast, spreading across Asia Minor, Europe, and Africa – including the Mediterranean and the Black seas, which were world’s most important trading routes at the time. Hence, this lead the Ottomans to establish commercial ties with many a neighbouring nation over the centuries. The first of these was Russia, beginning in the 15th century with Ivan III sending an ambassador to Istanbul so that they would oversee bilateral trade relations. This was known as a period of friendship and solidarity between the two countries; alas, before long, that spoiled, and led to many on and off battles. The main reason being was that both seas laid at the centre of Russia’s enlargement policy. They had expanded their trade network by adding new commercial concessions to agreements signed at the end of each war, thereby enabling them to defeat the Ottomans. That would continue until end of the 18th century – by which point their borders encircled the Ottoman Empire; plus, they had obtained the right to conduct free trade in Ottoman territorial waters as well via both seas. In this study, we shall explore this issue in and commercial (il)relations between the two parties in more depth, with the aid of Ottoman archival documents and research on this topic as primary and secondary sources.

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