@article{2018,title={DISCUSSIONS ON ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION: A HISTORICAL MATERIALIST APPROACH TO THE HISTORY OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE},abstractNode={When it is aimed to understand materialist history analysis and land ownership system of the Ottoman Empire, one of the subjects need to be focused is Asiatic Mode of Production (ATÜT) which has become a topic of debate in the movement of Turkish political thought at the second half of the 1960s. The aim of this study is to reveal, in a conceptual framwork, how the ATÜT discussions began and develop in Turkey. While doing this, at first, a literature review was made in order to understand what the concept of ATÜT refers to and national and international sources were utilized. It is seen that while worldwide discussions on ATÜT began in the 1920s, it was began just after 1960s in Turkey. One of the reasons is that just as the other thought movements, people cannot be critical, investigative and exactly scientific on this issue. On the hand, with the 1960s a new historical conception emerged and the concepts as underdevelopment drew interest in the context of Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic. The reasons of underdevelopment of Turkey, began to be sought in the political, social and economic structure of Ottoman Empire and increasing economic relations with the West.},author={Canan ÖZCAN},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}