Öz On March 18th, 2021 Mehmet Genç, an eminent Ottoman economic historian passed away. Together with Ömer Lütfi Barkan and Halil İnalcık, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Ottoman economic history.1 It can be said that, with his demise and thanks to his work, the age of the foundation of Ottoman economic history has now come to an end and the discipline has emerged as an indispensable part of world economic history.