Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Turkish History Education Journal, cilt.12, sa.2, ss.178-197, 2023 (TRDizin)
Exile has been one of the disciplinary actions used to ensure that the staff in modern educational institutions fulfill their duties in a certain order and thus the system's healthy functioning. The examination of many cases of teachers who were sentenced to exile in the process of modernization of education during the Tanzimat Period in the Ottoman Empire is both important and necessary to obtain original information and comments and to evaluate the issue from different angles. This study aims to make a historical case study of the teachers who were sentenced to exile based on the disciplinary actions of the sovereign power as a precaution to solve the problems arising from teachers as subjects at various levels of the modern educational system in the Ottoman Empire. The primary sources from the Ottoman Archives of the Republic of Türkiye Presidential State Archives regarding the historical period examined in this study. As a result, it was observed that legislation consisting of laws, statutes, and regulations was created to ensure that teachers in Ottoman modern educational institutions work in order and discipline prescribed by the government. Nevertheless, exile means much more than its denotation for those who experience it. The analysis of exiled teachers, both legally and socially restricted bodies, requires the re-examination of the Ottoman understanding of education and educational administration approach in the modern period within the triangle of teacher, discipline, and power.