Abstract
The Turkish past is not only Ottoman, and Ottoman history is not only Turkish. In other words, the title of this new Chair covers a vast, complex and even ambiguous field. We will, however, focus on a more targeted context which, while reducing the scope of the subject, will enable us to integrate these two dimensions of the question into a particular historical reflection: that of the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey in the face of the West. This questioning will in turn be set within a chronology straddling the modern and contemporary periods, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
