The French Occupation of Tunisia and the Signing of the Bardo Treaty in 1881, and the Ottoman Position on It

Abstract

French ambitions in Tunisia go back to a long time. In 1270 AD, King Louis IX launched a military campaign against Tunisia that was destined to fail. After that, France was able to impose a treaty in 1685 AD on Tunisia that entitles it to privileges over the rest of the other countries, but after the French occupation of Algeria in 1830, France paid attention Especially for Tunisia, which it considered an extension of Algeria from the eastern front, and France began to create pretexts for the occupation of the Tunisian Ayala. And the many problems on the Algerian-Tunisian border, which gave the pretext for France to mobilize its military forces to enter the land of the Ayala, and the Bey asked the French government to solve the problems amicably, and punish the quarrelsome before him, but the French government refused and the ruler of Tunisia sent a telegram to the Istanbul government asking it to intervene to contain the problem where it was The Tunisian state is nominally affiliated with the Ottoman Empire.