1935 Yılı Dış Politika Raporları Doğrultusunda Türkiye’nin Uluslararası Gelişmelere Bakışı

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This study examines the reports on evaluation of Turkish foreign policy prepared by three statesmen in 1935.In the study, The Assessments Of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Numan Menemencioğlu and Deputy Secretary General Ali Türkgeldi and of the Prime Minister İsmet İnönü were analyzed in terms of Turkish foreign policy based on the events that took place in the world in 1935.The purpose of this study is to present perception of Turkey's foreign policy in the context of pre-World War II developments occurring in the World by the archive documents obtained through documentary scan method.It was seen that Turkey carefully addressed the Eurocentric developments in terms of its foreign policy due to Italy's attack to Ethiopia and creating security concerns in Mediterranean and Balkans.Other developments occurring in the world apart from Mediterranean, the Balkans and Ethiopia developments were also among the issues tackled in terms of Turkey's foreign policy.The interconnected and disconnected assessments of Ali Türkgeldi, Numan Menemencioğlu and İsmet İnönü contain very important data as they indicate the focal points of Turkish foreign policy.The issues, which Turkey has a high sensitivity on, such as security of Mediterranean and Balkans, the issue of Ethiopia, rivalry between Germany and England, alliances occurred in the Europe etc. were included in the reports as topics indicating the red lines of Turkey before the Second World War.In this context, study examines the perceptions of Turkey's foreign policy among the developments in the world in 1935 in the process of going to the Second World War and evaluates foreign policies created by Turkey against the developments. Structured Abstract:After the Treaty of Lausanne, the founding treaty of the Republic of Turkey, was signed in 1923, Turkey, which considerably realized the decisions of Misak-ı Milli ( The National Oath), put the war period behind and passed the diplomacy period in foreign policy when matters remaining unsolved in the Treaty of Lausanne were solved.Turkish foreign policy, which no longer progressed in parallel with the war, had tried to solve the problems that could not be solved in Lausanne to the extent permitted by diplomacy, and was finalized to a large extent.In the period that was referred to as the interwar period, as Turkey had focused on internal political developments in the main, it had also started to closely follow up the changes occurred in Europe as of 1930's.