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The Tanzimat Shows How Reform Narratives Get Distorted
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2026-05-17 12:33:38
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The Tanzimat keeps getting framed as "the reform program that failed." But failed compared to what? It abolished feudal land structures, created a functioning civil code that some successor states used into the 1970s, and built an educational system whose graduates founded the Turkish Republic. The failure framing comes from reading the end backward — the Ottoman Empire collapsed, therefore everything before it failed. That's not how institutional history works. Most reforms produce partial, uneven results. Tanzimat produced partial, uneven results that still matter. Worth thinking about when we judge current reform programs the same way.
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