Foreword Abbreviations. 1. The Netherlands and Turkey. Four hundred years of political, economic, social and cultural relations 2. The Dutch Nation in Istanbul 1600 – 1985 3. An Eighteenth Century Ottoman Turkish-Dutch Letterbook and some of its Implications 4. Protection and Nationality. The Decline of the Dragomans. 5. The Organization of Western European trade in the Levant 1500-1800 6. The Historical Development of the Capitulatory Regime in the Ottoman Middle East from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century.  7. The Dutch Capitulation of 1612. Translation and Text 8. The Ottoman Mediterranean since Lepanto (October 7th, 1571) 9. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and the Turkish Nationalist Movement as recorded in the Dutch Press 1919-1923