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Ottoman Mersin: The Making of an Eastern Mediterranean Port-town

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Meltem Toksöz
Meltem Toksöz*
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Department of History, Boğaziçi University
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In a report prepared by a German geologist in 1917, Çukurova was designated as the most important region of cotton agriculture in Ottoman Anatolia. At the turn of the 21st century, the corporations of two families from Çukurova, Sabancı and Karamehmet, ranked among the largest 65 of the world. No other region of the former Ottoman Empire produced such wealth. This paper traces its generation back to nineteenth century processes of capital accumulation through the development of the port-town of Mersin.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 31 , Fall 2004 , pp. 71 - 89
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2004

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