What is "kararname"

Kararname of Prizren Committee for National Defence is the name of the decree (the Book of Decisions) signed by 47 Muslim deputies from the districts of Prizren, Yakova (present-day Gjakova), Ipek (present-day Peć), Gucia, Yeni Pazar (present-day Novi Pazar), Sjenica, Pljevlja, Mitrovica, Vučitrn, Pristina, Gnjilane, Skopje, Kalkandelen (present-day Tetovo), Kičevo, Gostivar, and Lower Dibra (present-day Peshkopi) and Upper Dibra (present-day Debar) on June 18, 1878. The original text, written on Ottoman Turkish, is missing. Around 300 Muslims participated on the assembly, including delegates from Bosnia and mutasarrif ( sanjakbey) of the Sanjak of Prizren as representative of the Ottoman authorities.

Kararname is a Turkish word for a proclamation, or a government decree.

There have been several notable kararnameler in the history of the Ottoman empire and, later, Turkey. These include:

• Kararname of 1296, on the Ottoman monetary system;
• Annual decrees on army conscription levels, following the reforms of sultan Mahmud II;
• Ali Kararname, the Decree of Ali issued in 1867 during the Tanzimat era;
• Kararname (League of Prizren), Issued by the Prizren League in 1878;
• Hukuk-i Aile Kararnamesi, the Ottoman Family Code of 1917.
• Kur'a Kararnamesi, an 1870 decree reorganising the Ottoman army.

"Kararname" may also refer to a decision by a court.