The Patriarchal Election Crisis At The Armenian Patriarchate Of Istanbul: The Repercussion of The Crisis In The American Consular Reports And Turkish Press (1944-1950) by Hikmet, Öksüz

“…The death of the first Armenian Archbishop of İstanbul during the Republican era, Mesrob I Naroyan, in 1944 led to an unprecedented leadership crisis throughout the whole history of the Patriarchate of İstanbul, which was established in 1461 upon the orders of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. Several international actors, including the main opposition candidate Bakhtiyarian to the locum tenens Archbishop Kevork Arslanian, were involved in the process when the latter refused to initiate the election process for the post of next Archbishop. …”
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Examples of Culinary Diplomacy in Late Era Ottoman Diplomacy by Emrah Çetin

“…Ottoman Sultans had hosted many banquets because of their power to unify, both in terms of foreign and domestic politics. …”
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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

“…In contesting historical understandings, the ancestral Central Asian Turkic civilizations, the imperial history of the Ottoman Sultans, and the birth of the Turkish Republic are seen as a series of ruptures with complex definitions of authenticity and foreignness, especially in relation to religion and ethnicity. …”
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