Edraak Weekly
Article Pick
Read Protectionists and Free Traders in the Late Ottoman Empire by Dr. Peter C. Mentzel, to know one possible economic cause of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. Had the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) not adopted a protectionist trade policy, could the Empire have survived?
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