Citat:
Tyvärr hamnade Osmanska riket i allvarliga ekonomiska kriser under mitten av 1800-talet och allt höll på att rasera. Under en tid var man oberoende men tvingades så småningom att göra det absolut mest förbjuda - Låna ränte-pengar från europeiska banker. Vilka typer det rörde sig om, vet vi ju redan. Landet började sakta men säkert förstöras invärtes och det hela slutade med att man blev uppslukat av dess lån-givare.
Citat:
"Between 1854 and 1881, the Ottoman Empire went through one of the most critical phases of the history of its relations with European powers. Beginning with the first foreign loan contracted in 1854, this process was initially dominated by a modest level of indebtedness, coupled with sporadic and inconsequential attempts by western powers to impose some control over the viability of the operation. From 1863 on, a second and much more intense phase began, which eventually led to a snowballing effect of accumulated debts. The formal bankruptcy of the Empire in 1875 resulted in the collapse of the entire system in one of the most spectacular financial crashes of the period. It was only six years later, in 1881, that a solution was found in the establishment of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration that would control a large portion of state revenues. The new system restored the financial stability of the Empire, but profoundly modified its rapports de force with Europe by imposing on it a form of foreign control that would have been unthinkable only ten or twenty years earlier. While bringing a much-needed stability to the flailing Ottoman financial situation and thus opening the way to economic development, the new system also radically changed the very nature of the process of integration, by introducing an imperialist dimension that had been lacking in the previous decades."
Varje europeiskt land har fått smaka på den medicinen och USA är ett utmärkt exempel.
