Tulip period

When Tulip Era (Turkish: Lâle Devri ) was in the older literature refers to that period of Ottoman history in which the Großwesirat of Damat İbrahim Pasha Nevşehirli with the Sultanate of Ahmed III. overlapped, ie 1718-1730. Sometimes the entire period of rule of Sultan Ahmed III. , 1703-1730, is understood as tulip time. The name derives from the cherished from the farm taste for tulips.

Meanwhile you gone over to ask the Tulip Era in quotes because this is an on contemporary politics happening invented in the early 20th century by Ahmet Refik in terms of literary- historical construct of the contemporaries of tulips time not well in the form was seen as the later history, Ahmet Refik following, accepted. This is especially true for the beginning of Westernization, which is said to have used at this time, and for secularization, which can actually be detected only for the following century.