Archive Collection
The archives of the (Imperial) Ottoman Bank constitute the
first private collection available for research in Turkey.
They represent an alternative source to the State archives
for researchers who bend over the end of the century where
it pursued its activities. Combining specific information
in a neutral and organized fashion, these archives offer new
possibilities for the study of political, economic, financial
and social history of the period from the end of the Ottoman
Empire to the establishment of the new Turkish Republic. The
Imperial Ottoman Bank provides a different perspective on
the Empire with its activities as state Bank, imperial Bank,
bank of issue, commercial and investment bank, organizer of
most of the Ottoman loans, Treasurer to the State, bank of
deposit for guarantees and mortgages over concessions and
limited companies, shareholder in a large number of multinational
enterprises active in the Empire, an institution with foreign
capital but benefiting from a purely Ottoman legal status,
deeply involved with the administration of the Ottoman Public
Debt and the Tobacco Monopoly and the institution with the
highest level of employment. It is this diversity which provides
the major strength of the archives which allow researchers
to carry out studies as varied as they are detailed about
a world of which many aspects still remain little-known.
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1.000
volumes of accounting books.