This article is an overview of the earliest symptoms of reforms in the Ottoman Empire which was, in fact a dual process of degeneration and reforms in this Empire. The reform trend in the Ottoman Empire can be broadly classified into two closely related categories; viz. "The Old Reforms and the New Reforms".While the Old Reforms focused on internal affairs of the Empire, the New Reforms were directed towards the outside world, which in such contexts is the west world.A western oriented approach on the part of the Ottoman Empire, which was a departure from its traditional approach towards the West_since it had always looked down on it_began in the period that came to be popularly referred to as the Laleh Period. It can be said that the bloody rebellion of this period that was ultimately victorious was mainly aimed at indulging in western whims and fancies rather than New Reforms.