Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Osmanli Medeniyeti Arastirmalari Dergisi, cilt.2022, sa.15, ss.99-120, 2022 (Scopus, TRDizin)
The Austro-Hungarian Empire, with its foreign policy in the years just before the First World War (1908-1914), played a direct and indirect role in the occurrence of events that would deeply affect the Ottoman Empire in the following years. In the same years, its representatives at various levels forced the Porte to deal with some internal issues. In this study, examples of which and what kind of internal issues the representatives of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were involved in and how precautions were taken against them were presented. The main sources of this historical research based on document analysis are Ottoman archival documents. In addition, accessible numbers of Austrian newspapers that are the subject of archival documents (Das Vaterland, Kikeriki, München Allgemeine Zeitung, Neues Wiener Journal, Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Reichspost, Wiener Montags Journal) are also included in the study. According to the research findings, one of the issues between the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires was the disagreement regarding the Bosnian border, which would be designated as a political border for the first time with the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1908). The claim of the Austrians to protect the Catholics in the Ottoman lands and their institutions was another subject of dispute. In addition, it has been determined that there are various problems arising from the Austrian's ambassadors and consuls, ferries, post offices, and newspapers.