BRITISH POLITICS IN THE YEMEN IN THE OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION ( TO THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR)
OSMANLI YÖNETİMİNDEKİ YEMEN’DE İNGİLİZ SİYASETİ (BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI’NIN SONUNA KADAR)

Author : Hasan KARAKÖSE
Number of pages : 323-339

Abstract

Yemen was ruled by local administrators before the Mamelukes. The conquest of Yavuz Sultan Selim in 1517 in Egypt, Yemen, entered the Ottoman domination. At the time when Yemen entered Ottoman rule, there was the danger of Portuguese pirates in the region. İn case of settlement Portuguese fully into the region, Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula could enter a commercially and religiously dangerous process. Ottoman State to prevent the formation of such an environment, it dominated Yemen and removed the potential danger. Geographical and religious differences in Yemen, The Ottomans were literally mastered in 1539. However, imams representing the Zaydiye sect continued their regional uprisings in Yemen for nearly a century. The Ottoman State did not want to consume its power unnecessarily, from 1635 to 1849 except for the northern sections and Sheikh Said regions the remaining parts of the local Zeydi has left the administration of imams. 1839 on the invasion of Aden by the British,seeing that it is necessary that the Ottoman administrators in the region of political change, they decided to follow the policy of dominating Yemen completely. the most important factor that hindered this policy was the British. The article deals with Ottoman-British politics from 1839 to the end of the First World War.

Keywords

Ottoman Empire, Yemen, British, Aden, Imam of Zaydiye,

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