Conspiracy, International Police Cooperation and the Fight against Anarchism in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1878–1908

Security implications had a long-term impact that created routinised and ordinary forms of violence, which not only affected the provinces but also transformed the state centre in the late Ottoman Empire. This chapter is an introduction that explores how perceptions of security developed with routinised practices of discourse and administration, and how these perceptions were tied into politics. In doing so, the chapter draws on political science, specifically the model of securitisation. According to securitisation theory, by placing a topic in the area of security by a ‘speech act’ – that follows a specific grammatical and rhetorical structure – an actor moves