How the Fez Transformed the Ottoman Empire

One day the Ottomans decided to modernize their look with the fez cap, and it changed how the world saw them forever.
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00:00 - Intro
1:30 - Mahmud II and Reform
4:55 - Introducing the Fez
6:33 - From Modern to Old
7:12 - Orientalism and the Ottomans
8:44 - Ataturk and Banning the Fez

Music used:
"Ibn Al Noor" by Kevin MacLeod
found at www.incompetech.com

Sources:
- Paşa, Mahmud Şevket. L’Organisation et les uniformes de l’armee ottomanne (depuis sa creation jusqu’a nos jours): Premiere partie, depuis 1326 jusqu’a 1826. Istanbul: Mekteb-i Harbiye Matbaasi, 1909.
- Quataert, Donald. “Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720-1829.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 29, no. 3 (1997): 403–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/164587.
- Said, Edward W.. Orientalism. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1979.
- Seal, Jeremy. A fez of the heart: travels around Turkey in search of a hat. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
- Stephanov, Darin. “Sultan Mahmud II (1808-1839) and the First Shift in Modern Ruler Visibility in the Ottoman Empire.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 1, no. 1–2 (2014): 129–48. https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.1.1-2.129.
- Suciu, Peter. “The Military Fez.” Military Heritage 14, no. 4 (December 2012). https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-military-fez/.

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