Çanakkale Industry (1927–1935)

Abstract

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was an industry in the Ottoman Empire that manufactured in small workshops and were organized as tradesmen organizations (guilds), which were developed ahead of their time.This domestic and national industry met both the country’s own industrial needs and exported surplus residual product, especially in the textile branch. This relatively developed industrial infrastructure in the Ottoman Empire collapsed in the Tanzimat Period after 1839. The most important reason for this was that the Ottoman local industry, which worked with manpower, could not compete with the modern industry of that period, which had emerged in Europe and was based on steam power, together with machine production.