OSMANLI MODERNLEŞMESİNİN HUKUK EKSENLİ BİR OKUMASI: REŞAT KAYNAR'IN "TÜRKİYE'DE HUKUK DEVLETİ KURMA YOLUNDAKİ HAREKETLER"İ.

We meet two main approaches in the Ottoman history researches of Republican era historians: The cultural-based essays generally evaluate the events of modern age -from French Revolution to World War I- through the problematic of the emergence of modern national identity, while the economybased perspective handles the same process as transition from agricultural community to capitalist society. Meanwhile after the end of World War II, we encounter a third way of interprating the Ottoman-Turkish modernization, which is based upon the development of 'rechtstaat' (the rule of law) notion. Reşat Kaynar's work, 'The Movements Towards Founding a Rechtsaat in Turkey' (1960), which was written upon the government models classified by Sıddık Sami Onar, professor of the Istanbul University Faculty of Law, represents a considerable example of this third view. The aim of this article is to throw light on the past of the juridical-based history-writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]