Abstract
The Ottoman intellectuals and administrators underestimating Europe until Treaty of
Karlowitz (1699), were considering the learning of a European language as an inferiority. Therefore,
the international relations in the Ottoman State were carried out generally by non-Muslim dragomen.
Sublime Porte (Bab-ı Ali) Foreign Language School and Ottoman Foreign Language School had been
founded. In addition to Arabic and Persian languages, French language took place firstly as a
European language in the Ottoman education system. French became the first European language to
be taught. The Turkish and French relations beginning in the XVIIth century and developing
especially in the literature and cultural domain, continued well until XXth centuries. In the period of
Sultan Abdulhamid II, Ottoman State made close relations with Germany rather than France and
England. The visit of the German emperor Wilhelm II to Istanbul upon the invitation of Ottoman
Sultan and Baghdad Railway Project fortified the German-Turkish relations. The Young Turks
coming to power after the Dethronement of Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1908 had a great German
admiration. During the First World War, the Ottoman and German relations in economic and political
areas arrived to the culminating point.
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boyacolu2015actathe