Historian Ahmed Cevdet Pasha's determinations and proposals in the development of Ottoman state in the XIX. century

While this study has beeen prepared, it was based on these three works -'' Tarih-i Cevdet'' , ''Ma'ruzat '' and '' Tezakir '' – that were written in the area of history by Ahmed Cevdet Pasha who was one of the most important statemen and idea men grown up in the XIX. Century by the Ottoman State . The books mentioned were analyzed and Cevdet Pasha's determinations towards Ottoman State - especially the fixation during his ra - his proposals and criticism were tried to be fixed. In the introduction section of this study, after its subject, inclusion and importance were specified, Cevdet Pasha's life and his work were analyzed and then in the XVIII. and XIX. centuries political history of the Ottoman State was briefly studied and finally Cevdet Pasha 's sense about the reforms and the reforms during his era were mentioned. The study consists of two sections and in the first section of it, Cevdet Pasha's state and the government sense, the sultans of whom he was in the service and the ideas about the prominent statesmen of the era were studied In the continuation of this section, the management of the palace and the changes in the bureaucracy, his ideas on these changes and lastly determination, recommendation and criticism that belong to the officialism, foreign affairs, army and life in the province were tried to be explained. In the second section, after his determinations on the economical and financial life of the Ottoman State in the XIX. century again in the same era, the changes those were lived in the sociocultural area and how he evaluated them were tried to be explained. Keywords: Cevdet Pasha, improvement, officer, economy, Ottoman management.