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- Title
Türk-Sovyet İlişkilerinin İlk Yılı Ve İki Kararname.
- Authors
Erdaş, Sadık
- Abstract
The Bolshevik Revolution, one of the most important events of the 20th century, has made significant contributions and impacts in the recent history of not only the Soviet geography, but also the neighbouring countries such as the Caucasus and Turkey, and has played an important role in shaping the region. The Turkish-Soviet relations, which is founded on hostilities and wars with a few exceptions, entered into a new era and a period of rapprochement began between the parties. The Bolshevik Russia regarded the National Struggle movement in Turkey as a struggle against Western colonial policy and deemed it appropriate for the own policies of Bolshevik Russia to help the Muslim World in its struggle for acquisition of liberties. However, the Ankara Government was too stunned by the stipulation by the Bolshevik administration on abandonment of a certain area of the eastern provinces to Armenians for the acceptance of the treaty terms set out during the negotiations conducted for a long time in a situation where the Treaty of Sevres was signed by the Istanbul Government and the Armenians were not yet included in the Soviet system. Thereupon, the Council of Ministers took two important decisions and made some determinations on the Bolsheviks' purposes and demands. These findings reveal the fact that the Soviet expansionism was first seen in Ankara and require them to be discussed in terms of their correctness and accuracy.
- Subjects
TURKEY; RUSSIA-Turkey relations; ARMENIANS; HISTORY of imperialism; TURKS; TREATY of Sevres (1920)
- Publication
Journal of Modern Turkish History Studies / Cumhuriyet Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi (CTAD), 2017, Vol 13, Issue 26, p67
- ISSN
1305-1458
- Publication type
Article