Rumeli Müfettişliği Döneminde (1902-1908) Makedonya’da Yunan Komitecileri ve Osmanlı Devleti
In Rumeli Inspectorate Period (1902-1908), Greek Bands in Macedonia and Ottoman Empire

Summary/Abstract: A bloody struggle has began among Bulgarians, Greeks and Serbs for post-Ottoman partition when the perception that Ottoman rule is about to end has become common in Macedonia provinces since Turco-Russo War of 1877-1878. This struggle was among diplomatic missions, churches, schools and finally armed gangs. In 1902, as result of the Great Powers’s intervention threat to the Sublime Porte, which began to accept the reform package in Macedonia, had tried to prevent from activities of Greek and Bulgarian bands mainly, in the following six years until the reproclamation of the Constitution. Even though Bulgarian komitadjis activities have been studied by Turkish academic circles, the activities of Greek bands commanded by Greek consulars and officers have not been studied adequately. This paper examines the results and activity methods of Greek andartes, along with the policy of Ottoman State against those. Moreover, it is pointed out that those band activities’s place in Greek mind.

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