From the beginning, his greatest efforts were directed towards the recovery of state finances and the reform of the army. The endorsee of these reform ideas was Sultan Selim III, who came to the throne in the year the French Revolution began.
EUROPEAN WAR WITH OTTOMAN SERIES
The Ottomans, weakened by military defeats and Christian revolts, embarked on a series of major reforms in the early 19th century. Britain and France, on the other hand, advocated the survival of the Empire because of their economic interests in the Mediterranean. During the peace treaty of 1774, it gained the right to protect Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Russia had the most interest in the Eastern Question.
That is why the Eastern Question (as the division of the Ottoman Empire is typically called) marked 19th-century politics. But there were a couple of great forces that wanted their part of the cookie. The division of the “sick man of Europe” seemed imminent.
The Eastern Question Sultan Selim III, by Konstantin Kapidagli, ca.1807, via the V&A Museum Under the influence of both internal factors, and the slow but persistent penetration of economic influences from Europe, this system began to be disrupted as early as the end of the 16th century.
The empire was based on the feudal system, a system upon which the military and economic strength of the state relied. The deepest roots of the crisis in the Ottoman Empire lay in the gradual decline of its very foundations.
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