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Who Killed Panayot?: Reforming Ottoman Legal Culture in the 19th Century book cover

1st Edition

Who Killed Panayot? Reforming Ottoman Legal Culture in the 19th Century

By Omri Paz Copyright 2021
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge
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Who Killed Panayot? retells the true story of an opium robbery and subsequent police investigation that took place in the port-city of Izmir in 1850-52. What started as a simple case soon turned into a diplomatic crisis between two bygone empires, as the investigation provoked strong tensions between the British community in Izmir and the local Ottoman authorities. These tensions were... Read more

Introduction

The Big Picture

1. Episode One: The Opium Deal

2. Episode Two: The Robbery

3. Episode Three: Reporting the Robbery

4. Episode Four: Panayot and Lefter's Arrest

5. Episode Five: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The Ottoman Version)

6. Episode Six: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The British Version)

7. Episode Seven: At Ulucaklı Dimitri's

8. Episode Eight: At John Werry's

9. Episode Nine: Interrogations in Seydiköy

10. Episode Ten: Panayot's Death & Bekir Ağa's Arrest

11. Episode Eleven: Manastırlı Mihail's Tale

12. Episode Twelve: The Consul & The Pasha

13. Episode Thirteen: An Imperial Affair

14. Episode Fourteen: Ali Nihat Efendi's Commission

Conclusions: A New Legal Culture

Biography

Omri Paz is a Senior Lecturer at Levinsky College of Education. His research interests lie in the areas of Ottoman and Middle Eastern social and socio-legal history, with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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