Osmanlılarda İktidarın Değişim Süreci Ve Meşruiyet Sorunu

Abstract

According to the Ottoman state tradition, the prerogative and political powers exercised by the Ottoman Sultan reflected the Turkish concept of monarchical an Islamic tradition, which was furnished by the image of his being 'the light of God's countenance on earth'. Since Mehmed II this concept took place in the Ottoman Code of Laws (Kanunname) and included a legislative nature as well. in the course of his reign, the Ottoman Sultan possessed a combination of great weight and value as the ultimate trustee of the reights of the sovereing people and the representative of the body of laws, statutes and customs. He was assumed to exercise both the prerogative and and the executive powers in the name of God since the moment he ascended the throne. Therefore, any interruptions by his prince brothers or other members of the Royal line were labelled as rebellious acts of rival claimants against the principle of hereditary norarchy and the central authority in the divine personality of the Ottoman Sultan. The persons who engaged in the acts of intervening the Ottoman prescriptive and automatic succession were generally the opposition groups who hoped to express their desires to the central authority in such an interrupting way.