The massigli affair and its context: Turkish foreign policy after the molotov–ribbentrop pact

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buir.contributor.authorİşçi, Onur
dc.citation.epage296en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage271en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber55en_US
dc.contributor.authorİşçi, Onur
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-17T10:40:07Z
dc.date.available2021-02-17T10:40:07Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines Turkey's wartime diplomacy between the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and Hitler's unleashing of Operation Barbarossa. Rather than a survey of Turkish foreign policy as a whole, it takes a critical episode from July 1940 as a case study that – when put in context – reveals how fear of Nazi power and even greater fear of the Soviet Union created in Turkey a complex view of a desired outcome from the Second World War. Juxtaposing archival materials in Turkish, Russian, German, and English, I draw heavily on the hitherto untapped holdings of the Turkish Diplomatic Archives (TDA). Overall, this article demonstrates both the breadth and limits of Nazi Germany's sweeping efforts to orchestrate anti-Soviet propaganda in Turkey; efforts that helped end interwar Soviet-Turkish cooperation. Against previously established notions in historiography that depict Soviet-Turkish relations as naturally hostile and inherently destabilizing, this article documents how the Nazi–Soviet Pact played a key role in their worsening bilateral affairs between 1939 and 1941. The argument, then, is in keeping with newer literature on the Second World War that has begun to compensate for earlier accounts that overlooked neutral powers.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0022009419833443en_US
dc.identifier.issn0022-0094
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/75401
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009419833443en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Contemporary Historyen_US
dc.subjectDiplomacyen_US
dc.subjectNazi Germanyen_US
dc.subjectPropagandaen_US
dc.subjectSecond World Waren_US
dc.subjectSoviet Unionen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleThe massigli affair and its context: Turkish foreign policy after the molotov–ribbentrop pacten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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