ABSTRACT
During the Tulip Period, refinement of the capital city and refurbishment of urban life became a state policy in the Ottoman court. A new model was built upon the bricolage of elements borrowed from the arts, architecture and gardens of European and Persian cultures outside Ottoman territory. The Kathane Mesiresi was a site of experiment where social and cultural projects of the Tulip Period were tested. Kathane Commons had always been a favorable meadow housing a hagiasma, with its fresh air and open fields fitting for the arts of sports. The court and the elite lived a festive life in the city of Istanbul during the Tulip Period. Nedm's poetry depicted real places in Istanbul, instead of ideal places of the metaphysical world. Modernization of the society during the Tulip Period followed from a more open development of cultural attitudes illustrated by the ehrengiz poets since the early sixteenth century.
