Privacy and Harem in Palace Culture Of Ottoman Classical Period

The cultural life in the Islamic societies has developed under the Islamic culture environment. The Ottoman(the classical period) has taken the associations from the Islamic and Turkish states and developed through the conditions of the era. The Ottoman Palace, which is represented with the power. relations horizontally rather than vertical with the spatial dissociation, defined both the characteristics of the Emperor residence as an identification of central politics, and the difficulty of attainability to the emperor in the area. The outer area that represents the public sphere and the inner part-harem-that represents the privacy are the indicators of a systematic that is organized related to the privacy nearby the social status as an extension of Islamic culture. In this study; the reflection of privacy of Ottoman culture to the Topkapi Palace Harem is investigated. The aim of this paper is to aid the folklore by introducing some parts of the cultural values that are lived in that structure