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Abstract
Academic research, both in the East and the West, on the economic and commercial history of the Ottoman Empire during the early modern times has been lively for a long time. It seems that this research and interest have began to increase in recent years. Although a number of issues concerning the commercial interests of the Ottomans still wait to be elaborated by the researchers, a lot of work has been done and significant books have been published on the issue. Thus, a huge literature has come into existence concerning the early modern period. Giving this huge literature on the commercial interests of the Ottomans during the early modern times is difficult, a review of the picture will be extremely useful to the new researchers. This task is taken up in this paper.