Janissary Corps and the Change of the Political Power Distribution System in the Ottoman Empire

As a completion of the classical understanding of the Janissary corps, in the present article it is illustrated how the changes which had taken place in this formation, especially after the second half of the 16th century, previously (at the era of the Ottoman Empire), from the political and social point of view called “backward” and nowadays, basing on the criteria of the popular historical depiction, called a “corruption” had become the reason of that so called “backwardness”. The reasons of that poor condition should be searched in the transformations taking place in the Ottoman Empire between the rise and the abolition of the Janissory corps; in the political, economical, social and power-connected problems as well as in the remedial steps which had been taken to prevent those problems.The present article provides an analisys of the connection between the political and social transformations of the Ottoman Empire and the changes in the Janissory corps, especially in the context of the relations between the Janissory and authorities or powerful social groups.