The application of the Tanzimat reforms to yurtluk-ocaklık and hükümet sancaks (1839-1864)

The managerial constructions and procedures ran counter to the modern centralist state perspective that the Tanzimat reforms aimed to construct were ceased gradually. One of these constructions was yurtluk-ocaklık and hükümet sancaks.By the application of the Tanzimat reforms; managerially, the number of sancaks functioned as yurtluk-ocaklık, decreased with time and ended by 1840-1841. Some hükümet sancaks remained active till the period that Tanzimat was announced, nevertheless, in place of these geographically small sancaks, managerial subdivision units were established. At the beginning, local rulers (bey, beg) were appointed as managers to rule these units. Later, this application was canceled and the government itself appointed managers to these units. By this application, local rulers? management was abolished.As for financial applications, the fields which were disposed of as yurtluk-ocaklık was taken by the (national) treasury and the owners were put on a salary in payment for these fields. Principally, though the disposing of fields as yurtluk-ocaklık was ended by the announcement of Tanzimat in 1839, in the province of Erzurum and Diyarbekir where there were lots of that kind of fields, Tanzimat decrees were started to put into practice from 1845 on. This application took time to carry out because of the military, managerial and financial problems in these provinces.Militarily, Anadolu Ordu-yu Hümayun took control of the province, untrained soldiers(başıbozuk) and tribal forces lost power. In the province, the difficulties in the practice of lot method and the draft were overcome to a great degree.