PANHANDLING FOREIGNERS IN OTTOMAN STATE AND OTTOMAN CITIZENS WHO WENT TO EUROPE FOR PANHANDLING AT SULTAN II.ABDÜLHAMİT PERIOD

“Ottoman and Mendicancy” is a subject that was not dwelled upon so much. As a result of our investigations, it was seen that mendicancy was an event in Ottoman term. Especially at the end of the XIX century, it was seen that the state, which had started serious steps for European life style, did not approach moderately to mendicants problem as compared to previous times. In spite of not giving panhandling permission to anyone except requisite conditions, it was understood form the documents that were taken from Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi that, some foreigner people were panhandling in Ottoman State borders and in the same way, some Ottoman citizens were going to Europe for panhandling. According to that, including European citizens, some of the foreigners were coming to Ottoman State only for panhandling. Consequently, Ottoman did not permit those people who were come for panhandling. For this reason, we want to mention general approach of Ottoman to mendicants. However, we want to point out the situations of foreigner mendicants in Ottoman State and non-Muslim Ottoman citizens who were went to Europe especially for religious reasons, the general approach of the state to those people and the politics that the state applied.