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Ottoman Legacy

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Waqf (vakıf) property nationalization, reform, and litigation in Turkey (1923–1984)

1924 - 1984

Transformation of Ottoman military institutions into the Turkish Armed Forces (1908–1939)

1908 - 1936

Transfer, cataloguing, and publication of the Ottoman archives in Republican Turkey (1923–2000)

1846 - 2013

The Millet system's evolution into Republican minority policies and legal status (1908–2003)

1908 - 2003

The 1923 Greek–Turkish Population Exchange and its implementation (1919–1926)

1919 - 1926

Taxation and fiscal reform: from Ottoman tax farms to the Republican fiscal state (1839–1930)

1839 - 1928

Tanzimat to Turkish Civil Code: legal reforms from Ottoman modernization to 1926 (1839–1926)

1839 - 1926

Surname Law and the reshaping of personal naming from Ottoman conventions (1923–1935)

1923 - 1935

Language and script reform: transition from Ottoman Turkish to the Latin alphabet (1908–1928)

1908 - 1929

Land law and agrarian change: from Ottoman tapu practices to the 1925 Land Law (1858–1934)

1839 - 1934

Judicial transformation from Ottoman sharia courts to the Republican secular judiciary (1864–1926)

1858 - 1926

Istanbul's urban transformation and management of Ottoman spatial heritage (1923–1980)

1923 - 1985

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