Pergerakan freemason period Ottoman dikata bermula pada awal abad ke-18. Aktiviti freemason bergerak secara lebih giat apabila proses reform diperkenal oleh pemerintah Ottoman pada 1839. Pemerintah Ottoman yang menyemarak Freemason adalah Sultan Abdulmadjid (r.1839-61), Abdulaziz (r.1861-1876) dan Abdulhamid (r.1876-1909). Pada period pemerintahan ketiga-tiga Ottoman tersebut banyak rumah freemason (lodges) dibina oleh warga Eropah di merata pelosok Istanbul.
Artikel juga menyebut faktor yang mendorong gerakan freemason di Turki pada era reform tersebut
This remarkable phenomenon is related to the new trend of receptiveness to western influence: receptiveness to economic penetration and political influence, receptiveness to ideas prevailing in Europe, and also receptiveness to individuals coming from the West. For sure, had there not been the thousands of European adventurers who flocked to the Ottoman eldorado from the 1850ies onwards, Ottoman freemasonry would have developed on a much lower scale. Another factor that explains the blooming of freemasonry is the wide range of guarantees granted to Ottoman subjects as well as to foreigners in the wake of the imperial edict of 1856. From then on, Ottomans and in particular
non-moslem subjects” of the sultan, felt themselves much less dominated by an arbitrary power and could make plans such as the creation of philanthropic associations without fear of legal proceedings and punishment.
Up to a point, Ottoman freemasonry of the 1850ies and 1860ies can also be considered as a by-product of the Crimean war. Indeed, British and French soldiers that came to fight in the East seem to have largely contributed to thebintroduction of masonic lodges in this part of the world.
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