19. Yüzyıl Başlarında İmroz ile Limni’de Yerel ve Merkezî Yönetim

Osmanlı yönetimindeki Kuzey Ege adalarında nüfusun çoğunluğunu oluşturan Ortodoks Hristiyan Rum toplumunun sosyal dinamikleri, sivil ve dinî liderleriyle merkezî ve yerel yönetimle olan ilişkileri hâlâ yeteri kadar bilinmemektedir. Osmanlı-Türk tarih yazıcılığında, Müslüman ayanlar üzerine odaklanan çalışmalar bulunurken, benzer mevkiye ve görevlere sahip gayrimüslim kocabaşılar hakkında pek fazla çalışma bulunmamaktadır. Yapılan araştırma ve çalışmalar, kocabaşıların statü yönünden Müslüman ayanlara denk olduğunu ve adalılar ile merkezî hükümet arasında aracı görevi gördüklerini ortaya koymuştur. Bununla beraber, kocabaşıların tarihî süreçte değişen ekonomik, politik ve sosyal şartlar paralelinde kazandıkları gücün artması ve bu durumun ahali üzerindeki etkileri konusu henüz detaylı araştırmalara konu olmamıştır. Bu makale; kocabaşıların, ada toplumlarındaki rolünü, kocabaşı ve adalılar ile merkezî hükümet arasındaki ilişkiler konusunu ele almaktadır. Adalıların sivil ve dinî liderlerinin yanı sıra merkezî hükümetle olan ilişkilerini kavramak, ada toplumlarındaki güç ilişkileriyle adalılara dindaşları olan kocabaşılar ile Müslüman yerel ve merkezî yönetim tarafından nasıl muamele edildiğini anlamamıza yardımcı olacaktır.

The Kocabaşis as Intermediaries?: The Local and Central Administration in Imvros/İmroz and Lemnos in the Early 19th Century

The communal dynamics of the Aegean islands and the relationship of the islanders with their civil and religious leaders and the relationship between communal leaders and local and central authorities have yet to be told. Studies in the Ottoman-Turkish historiography, generally following a monolithic approach, focused on primarily on Muslim ayans, whereas ignored their non-Muslim counterparts (kocabaşı). In the present literature, kocabaşıs were regarded as equals of ayans and as intermediaries between local people and central government and other Ottoman authorities. However, the economic, political and social conditions under which the non-Muslim counterparts of ayans –kocabaşıs– gained influence and power over local people in different regions of the Empire are not explored well yet. This paper, focuses on the role of the kocabaşıs in the island society and the relationship between kocabaşıs and islanders, and central government. Understanding the relationship among civil, religious local leaders and the Ottoman central authority will provide a better understanding of dynamics of power in the Aegean islands and help to answer the question how the local people were treated by their coreligionist local leaders and Muslim Ottoman authorities, both local and central.

Keywords:

Kocabaşı, Imvros, Lemnos, Aegean central government,

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