British Policy and the Turkish Reform Movement

Discusses the economic background of British diplomatic relations with Turkey. Bailey finds that the Reform Movement was essentially Turkish in origin, and was motivated not by a desire for an improved order but by the sheer necessity for preservation; that Britain did not originate the regeneration of Turkey and encouraged it but little; that the British foreign ministers between 1825 and 1853 pursued a status quo policy which retarded rather than promoted the real reformation of the old Turkish state.