The Disestablishment of the Istanbul Slave Market, refers to the Imperial Firman or Ferman (Decree) issued by Sultan Abdülmecid I in 1847.
[1] The edict closed the public slave market in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul.
The result was that the slave market in Istanbul was no longer visible to foreign visitors or the subject of criticism and bad publicity, contributing to a more modern image of the Ottoman capital consistent with the modernization efforts of the Tanzimat era.
[5] The reform in fact worsened the conditions of the slave market, by moving it away from state control and supervision.
The state institution Hizmetçi İdaresi was established as a work agency for domestic servants, which in practice functioned as a slave market.