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    Turko-Soviet relations: from convergence in the early Turkish Republic days to divergence during the early WWII (1920-1939)
    (Bilkent University, 2021) Jarray, Nour; Almonajed, Omar; Alqatarneh, Sara Salem Khalaf; Eeman, Uswah; Abdolvandi, Mohammadsajad
    The establishment of the Turkish republic in 1922 by Mustafa Kemal, who later became known as Ataturk, brought along its own challenges. With the inception of an independent republic, alliances and hostilities arise, and the Turko-Soviet relationship has seen a bit of both. The interwar period has been a crucial one in shaping the development of the relationship between the two. Turkey and Soviet Russia signed a brotherhood pact known as the Moscow treaty in 1921 marking the emergence of an alliance which broke abruptly prior to World War II in 1938 owing to a conflict of interest between the two nations.1 The following paper is an inquiry of the potential motives that led the two nations to converge in the early Turkish republic days then part ways prior to World War II. This paper focuses particularly on the ideological factors that drove the friendship, influenced its progression and eventually its termination.