OSMANLI DEVLETİ'NDE AMERİKAN MİSYONERLERİNİN ERMENİLERE YÖNELİK EĞİTİM FAALİYETLERİ

Although missionary is acceptable for all universal religions, Christians and Christianity come to one's mind when missionary is called. The reason of this is the meaning that is put into the word "mission" according to the conditions and these meaning's made based on the Holy Bible. The missionary is the subject that handled as "teaching the Bible, bringing the people who are not Christian in Christianity" is also an actual issue today. A great many missionary organizations were established for spreading Christianity in Europe and America. One of these is American Board, organized in Boston in 1810. This organization, one of the most significant Protestant missionary organizations in USA, sent out missionaries to China, India, South America, Africa and the Middle East where Christianity came into light to achieve its goal. The activities of the American Board in the Ottoman lands began in the early 1820s. Missionary activities were not only religious activities but also resulted against the Ottomans and on the contrary, on the side of western countries resulted as politically, geographically, socially, economically and culturally. Furthermore, as a result The Ottomans lost totality of their nation and process of the Ottoman decay gained speed. Against the missionary activities The Ottomans had attempted to take precautions, had made some arrangements but these precautions hadn't resulted as they expected.