The Ottoman Turks is a collection of essays by Dr. Carl Max Kortepeter on the Ottoman history. Having devoted many years of his research career to the study of the Ottoman history and relations of the Ottomans with the peoples on the borderlands of the empire, Dr. Kortepeter provides a dramatic insight into various aspects of the more than 600 years long Ottoman history. Ottoman policy and international relations as well as social structure, culture and economy are discussed on the basis of historical evidences also with several theoretical articles on history writing. An indispensable guide not only to the Ottoman East but also to a wider understanding of the West.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 6)
• INTRODUCTION (page 8)
• THE ORIGINS AND NATURE OF TURKISH POWER (page 11)
• THE ISLAMIC-OTTOMAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE:THE QUEST FOR A MODEL OF OTTOMAN HISTORY (page 51)
• OTTOMAN IMPERIAL POLICY AND THE ECONOMY OF THE BLACK SEA REGION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (page 75)
• THE TURKISH QUESTION IN THE ERA OF THE FIFTH LATERAN COUNCIL(1512-1517)* (page 115)
• GAZI GIRAY II, KHAN OF THE CRIMEA, AND OTTOMAN POLICY IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE CAUCASUS, 1588-94 (page 135)
• GERMAN ZEITUNG LITERATURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (page 161)
• HABSBURG AND OTTOMAN IN HUNGARY IN THE 16th AND 17th CENTURIES (page 173)
• HOW THE OTTOMANS GOVERNED THE ARABS:THE OBSERVATIONS RECORDED BY EVLIYA CHELEBI IN 1672 (page 183)
• THE UNITED STATES ENCOUNTERS THE MIDDLE EAST: THE NORTH AFRICAN EMIRATES AND THE U.S.NAVY(1783-1830) (page 199)
• MONEY AND BANKING IN ALGIERS IN 1800 (page 215)
• AMERICAN LIBERALISM ESTABLISHES BASES: ROBERT COLLEGE AND THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT (page 239)
• OTTOMAN MILITARY REFORM DURING THE LATE TANZIMAT:THE PRUSSIAN GENERAL VON DER GOLTZ AND THE OTTOMAN ARMY (page 257)
• THE RISE OF KING 'ABD AL-'AZIZ IBN SA'UD AL-HAMID II(1876-1909) (page 271)
• REVIEW ARTICLE OSMANLI ILMI VE MESLEKI CEMIYETLER (page 301)
• KEMAL ATATURK AND THE OTTOMAN TRADITION OF LEADERSHIP AND REFORM (page 315)