3. Impact of Tanzimat reforms
Despite progressive intentions, the policy of reform in the form of Tanzimat ultimately failed to save the Empire. The Turkish historian, Zeynep Çelik has written, "In summary, from 1838 to 1908 the Ottoman Empire staged its final but doomed struggle for survival.' How successfully did the Ottoman Empire modernise during the Reforms? The reforms of the Tanzimat period were attempts to keep an empire alive in the...