Edict of Gülhane

The Edict of Gülhane (Gülhane Hatt-ı Şerifi), also called the Tanzimât Fermânı, was a proclamation by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I in 1839 that launched the Tanzimât period of reform in the Ottoman Empire. Issued at the behest of the reformist Grand Vizier Mustafa Reşid Pasha and named after Gülhane Park, where it was first proclaimed, it promised security of life, honour and property, public trials, a regular system of taxation in place of tax farming and reformed conscription, to all subjects whatever their religion. It made royal promises rather than legal changes and was never fully implemented; after the Crimean War it was followed by the Imperial Reform Edict of 1856.