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The Tulip Era: Ottoman Art and the Fall of Empire
While earlier episodes touched on the Young Atatürk’s formative years and the brutal birth of the Republic, this episode looks back at the courtly splendor that preceded the modern state. We explore the Lale Devri, or Tulip Era, a period often dismissed as decadent but which actually served as the empire’s first serious attempt at Westernization. Through the lens of Sultan Ahmed III and his Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, we examine how Istanbul’s aristocracy turned to art, diplomacy, and printing presses rather than swords. This shift culminated in the Treaty of Passarowitz, a…
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