The Improvement Firman was not only designed to organise the interior issues of the Ottoman Empire but also to hinder European and Russian interference in the internal regulations.

It was declared just before the Paris Conference, in Istanbul to the foreign representatives. Important articles of the firman as below;

• Religious freedom will be obtained.

• New councils will be established in the Patriarchate and the decisions of these councils will be approved by the Ottoman Government.

• All the subjects will be equal in the government offices, schools and in military service.

• The taxes will be equally imposed.

• Foreigners will be free to buy estates in the Ottoman territories.

Sultan Abdulmecid I had passed away in his 38^th year. He was the first Ottoman Sultan who had an European education. He tried to reform and restore all the regulations of the empire. He gave permission to the newspapers and to the birth of new ideas.