Ottoman Imperial Archives excluded all Westerners before 1949

Evidence

I also applied, with little expectation of success, for permission to use the Imperial Ottoman Archives. … No Westerner had however been admitted to these archives, apart from a very small number of expert archivists brought in as consultants. … It was obvious that these archives would be a precious, indeed an indispensable, source for the history of all the lands that had ever formed part of the Ottoman Empire, and of value even for others, like Iran, that had been involved with the Ottomans in one way or another. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 80 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Ottoman Imperial Archives had never been opened to Western scholars — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 80; The Ottoman archives were sealed to scholars before 1949; Ottoman archives held millions of documents long closed to Western scholars

Broader Connections

• The Ottoman Imperial Archives had never been opened to Western scholars #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 80
• The Ottoman archives were sealed to scholars before 1949 #corroborates (0.95)