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Lecture: Correspondence between the Prince and the Pasha: Diplomatic and Personal letters between Halil Pasha and Prince Maurits of Netherlands, by Mehmet Tütüncü, December 15, 2010, 18:00 Abstract In 2012 Netherlands and Turkey will celebrate the establishment of first (diplomatic) relationship. This remarkable friendly relationship is lasting now for 400 years.  Netherlands as a part of Habsburg Spanish Empire declared independence in 1585 and was in search for allies in its war of independence (the so called eighty-years-war) that lasted until 1648 (Peace of Westphalia). Ottoman Turkey was also involved in a centuries-long war against Spain in the Mediterranean. This common enemy was the driving motive for the Staten generaal (Dutch parliament) and Stadthouder Prince Maurits to send an ambassador in the person of Cornelis Haga to the Ottoman High Porte to obtain support against Spain and free trade and commerce in the Ottoman countries.  The strong man of his time Halil Pasha, who was the Grand Admiral and Grand Vizier in these days, promoted this Turkish-Dutch friendship. He was personally involved in many “Dutch affairs” and wrote many letters to Prince Maurits (Konte Maverisyu as Halil Pasha addressed him) to solve and give tactics on how to obtain privileges from the High Porte. The focus in this lecture will be how the Ottoman-Dutch relationship was established and how it developed during the days of Khalil Pasha and Prince Maurits, in the light of personal correspondence of Khalil Pasha with Prince Maurits preserved in the National Archives in The Hague (Netherlands). Özet 2012 yılında Hollanda Kraliyeti ile Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ilk ilişkilerin kuruluşunun 400 yıldönümünü kutlamaya hazırlanıyorlar. 1585 yılında İspanya’dan bağımsızlığını ilan eden Hollanda, İspanya’ya karşı müttefik aramaktaydı ve Akdeniz ticaretini geliştirmek için Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’na müracaat ederek 1612 yılında ilk elçisi Cornelis Haga’yı İstanbul’a gönderdi. Ortak düşman İspanya’ya karşı mücadele ilk yıllarda öncelikli olsa da, daha sonra gelişen Hollanda gemi ticareti, Hollanda’nın Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’na ilgi ve alakasını daimi kılmıştır. Hollanda ile ilişkilerin gelişmesinde Osmanlı’nın güçlü adamı Kaptanı Derya ve Sadrazam olan Kayserili Halil Paşa önemli rol oynamıştır. Halil Paşa inisiyatifini kullanarak Hollanda ile ilişkilerin gelişmesinde şahsen rol almış, Hollanda’nın yöneticileri Staten general ve Prins Maurits’e mektuplar yazarak karşılaşılan zorluklar ve aşılması gereken engeller konusunda Hollanda hükümetine taktik yardımlarda bulunmuştur.  Bildirimizde Hollanda milli arşivlerinde bulunan Halil Paşa’nın mektuplarından hareketle Hollanda-Osmanlı ilişkilerinin ilk evresi ele alınacaktır.

Previous activities 2010 Symposium: When women enter the public space... Men and families in women's architectural heritage in East and West, November 25-26 (more information) Lecture: From Roman Authepsa to Russian Samovar: Anatolian Crossroads, Chinese Tea, Dutch and British Commerce by Prof. Dr. Aleksandr K. Gavrilov (St. Petersburg University), November 8, 2010 (more information) Lecture: Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet. Women in Proverbs from Around the World by Mineke Schipper, October 25, 2010 (more information) Lecture: Luxury, Power Strategies and the Question of Corruption. Gifting in the Ottoman Elite (16th-18th Centuries) Hedda Reindl-Kiel, October 20, 2010 00 (more information) Symposium: Fourth International Conference on Jewish Italian Literature (ICOJIL 4): Jewish migration: voices of the Diaspora  June 23-25, 2010 (more information) International Workshop: History of Labour Relations,with IISG Amsterdam June 18-19, 2010 PhD Course: Istanbul, city of contrasts. Cultural transfer between Europe and Turkey with Huizinga-Instituut Amsterdam  May 30-June 6, 2010 Lecture Cornelis de Bruijn (1652-1727) and the Rediscovery of Persepolis  Jan Willem Drijvers (Groningen University) May 4, 2010 (more information) Literary Evening Voices from the Beyond. An Evening of Turkish and Dutch Poetry May 3, 2010 (more information) Europa Nostra Experience sharing meetings of NGOs-The Netherlands April 9, 2010 (more information) Lecture  Ottoman Tile Culture in the 18th Century: the Dutch Connection  Hans Theunissen (Leiden University) 1 April 2010 (more information) Lecture Dutch travel accounts on the Ottoman Empire 1590-1800 Jan Schmidt (Leiden University) 5 March 2010 (more information) Lecture Qala’at Halwanji — a 4000 year old fortress in Syria Jesper Eidem (NINO) 18 February 2010 (more information) Masterclass on Archaeobotany with Prof. René Cappers 15-26 February 2010 Lecture Doing research on Ottoman women and the International Women's Movement or, how to turn into an armchair scholar Nicole van Os (Leiden University) 10 February 2010 (more information) 2009 Symposium Connections in Past and present. Istanbul Graduate Symposium on Archaeology, 19 December, 2009 (more information) Symposium Museums and Display. Stories in a showcase  13-14 November, 2009 (more information) Seminars Archaeobotany Seminars at NIT with René Cappers 6, 7, 8 October, 2009 (more information) Masterclasses New Approaches in Archaeobotany 5-9 October 2009  (read more) Fifth Workshop of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations International Institute of Social History (IISG) with NIT 25-26 September 2009 Symposium Ottoman Biographical Sources I: The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Biographer Aşık Çelebi and His Work June 19, 2009  (more information) Lecture Experimentalism in Turkish literature: Adalet Ağaoğlu's YazSonu Petra de Bruijn (Leiden University) June 11, 2009 (more information) Lecture The 2nd Neolithic Revolution in Asia Minor: Evaluating Possible Causes Bleda S. Düring (Leiden University) May 21, 2009 (more information) Lecture Fritz Rudolf Kraus in Istanbul (1937-1949) and the development of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Turkey Jan Schmidt (Leiden University), May 11, 2009  (more information) Lecture Depraved Borderlands - Love Affairs Between Muslims and non-Muslims in Dutch Literature from the Middle Ages until today Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar (Groningen University), May 6, 2009 (more information) Lecture On clocks and dreams: the novel Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü [Time Regulation Institute] by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Hanneke van der Heijden (translator), April 6, 2009 (more information) 2nd Workshop on Neolithic Anatolia 2-3 March 2009 at Istanbul University  The Neolithic Period in Western Anatolia and Thrace: Attempt for Sharing Information and Constructing a Chronology  Organizing institutions: Department of Prehistory of Istanbul University - Department of Archaeology of Aegean University - Netherlands Institute in Turkey Lecture Empires, Cities, Sanctuaries. Imperial Patronage of Sanctuaries in Asia Minor and beyond, ca. 550 BCE-950 CE Rolf Strootman January 28, 2009 (more information)   2008 >>> 2007 >>> 2006 >>>