Istanbul Memories

Personal Narratives of the Late Ottoman Period

An interdisciplinary and international research project of the Orient-Institut Istanbul and academic cooperation partners.

This project is coordinated by Dr. Richard Wittmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul, www.oiist.org) in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Christoph Herzog (Lehrstuhl für Turkologie, Universität Bamberg). It aims at collecting, recovering and rereading these texts as sources for the study of late Ottoman social realities in all their inclusiveness and complexities. It aims at collecting, recovering and rereading these texts as sources for the study of late Ottoman social realities in all their inclusiveness and complexities.

http://www.istanbulmemories.org/