An Assessment on The Use of Women's Right to Complain Between 1765 and 1768 (According to The Bosnia Ahkam Register Number 3)

Abstract

A complaint can be defined as the communication of the problem to the relevant institutions in order to get rid of this situation in a subject that the person or persons be treated unfairly or feels wronged. Since the provision of justice in the Ottoman state was also seen as consolidating the administration, important rights were granted to both soldiers and the people at the point of exercising the right to complain. Every part of the society can apply to the nearest judicial authorities, as well as convey their complaints to the Divan-ı Hümayun. In this study, benefiting from the documents in the Bosna ahkam book of number 3 It examines how and in what ways women in Bosnia convey their grievances to Divan Humayun, what issues they complain about, how the process works, what it brings for women, and what is done to solve the problem. For this purpose, the provisions Bosna ahkam book of number 3 covering the period of the year we determined were scanned and the provisions concerning women were selected from among them. In the provisions we have determined, it has been observed that the women have received their complaints about heritage, usurping of land, usurping (property) and receivables get over to the Divan-ı Hümayun.