Portraits from War to Peace: Britain and Turkey (1914-1939)

Nur Bilge CRİSS

Makale detayları

Portraits from War to Peace: Britain and Turkey (1914-1939)

Yazarlar:

Nur Bilge CRİSS

Yayıncı:

Behçet Kemal YEŞİLBURSA

Ana Başlıklar:

Tarih ve Coğrafya | Uluslararası ilişkiler

Dergi:

Journal of Anglo-Turkish Relations 2021 Vol.2 Issue 2, pp.8-24

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000491816

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6396

Özet:

 

The purpose of this article is threefold. One is to address an age-old foreign policy framework that shaped Anglo-Turkish relations prior to and in the aftermath of World War I (WWI). Namely, how the Eastern Question came to bear on the ideational level and in practice in Anglo-Ottoman/Turkish relations. Secondly, punitive peace conditions were imposed on the Central Powers under the unprecedented demand for unconditional surrender. Victors did not take into consideration the possibility of resistance, let alone armed resistance from the defunct Ottoman Empire whose core territories, including its capital were under Allied occupation. A state of war continued until a negotiated peace was concluded in 1924. Peace-making was formalized in 1920, but mainly in terms dictated by the Allies. Hence, a state of war continued until resistance prevailed in 1924. The third aspect of the saga was peacebuilding. European conjuncture of the 1930s forced London and Ankara, by then the capital of the Republic of Turkey, to mend fences albeit reluctantly for the former, but facilitated by diplomats. Consequently, inspired by the English poet Alexander Pope that “the proper study of mankind is man,”  this article analyses the politics of war, its aftermath, peace-making, and peacebuilding through portraits of public influencers, decision makers and diplomats who were practitioners of policy. Inherent during this timeframe is how assumptions about their political future resonated on their Turkish interlocutors.

 

The purpose of this article is threefold. One is to address an age-old foreign policy framework that shaped Anglo-Turkish relations prior to and in the aftermath of World War I (WWI). Namely, how the Eastern Question came to bear on the ideational level and in practice in Anglo-Ottoman/Turkish relations. Secondly, punitive peace conditions were imposed on the Central Powers under the unprecedented demand for unconditional surrender. Victors did not take into consideration the possibility of resistance, let alone armed resistance from the defunct Ottoman Empire whose core territories, including its capital were under Allied occupation. A state of war continued until a negotiated peace was concluded in 1924. Peace-making was formalized in 1920, but mainly in terms dictated by the Allies. Hence, a state of war continued until resistance prevailed in 1924. The third aspect of the saga was peacebuilding. European conjuncture of the 1930s forced London and Ankara, by then the capital of the Republic of Turkey, to mend fences albeit reluctantly for the former, but facilitated by diplomats. Consequently, inspired by the English poet Alexander Pope that “the proper study of mankind is man,”  this article analyses the politics of war, its aftermath, peace-making, and peacebuilding through portraits of public influencers, decision makers and diplomats who were practitioners of policy. Inherent during this timeframe is how assumptions about their political future resonated on their Turkish interlocutors.

Makale detayları

Portraits from War to Peace: Britain and Turkey (1914-1939)

Yazarlar: Nur Bilge CRİSS

Yayıncı: Behçet Kemal YEŞİLBURSA

Ana Başlıklar: Tarih ve Coğrafya | Uluslararası ilişkiler

Dergi: Journal of Anglo-Turkish Relations 2021 Vol.2 Issue 2, pp.8-24

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000491816

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2687-6396

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Nur Bilge CRİSS

Yayıncı:

Behçet Kemal YEŞİLBURSA

Ana Başlıklar:

Tarih ve Coğrafya | Uluslararası ilişkiler

Dergi:

Journal of Anglo-Turkish Relations 2021 Vol.2 Issue 2, pp.8-24

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000491816

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6396