The Forum journal in the frame of Turkish foreign policy during Democrat Party

In this study, Turkish foreign policy between 1954 and 1960 is analyzed within the framework of Forum magazine. The 1950s was a period of radical changes in world politics. In the Cold War era, transformations took place in all political elites and interest groups. In this context, the writers of Forum magazine, which are considered as a new group of intellectuals, are a group that played an important role in Turkish political history in the following years. Forumists, who were mostly academics at universities during 1954-1960 period, took their place on the stage of history as powerful political actors in the political climate after the military coup of May 27, 1960. The Forum writers, who were the new pro-Anglo-American intellectual group of this period in which Turkey's Westernization moves dating back to the Ottoman Empire were embodied, acted with their own Westernist ideology based on Kemalism. The main subject of this study is to analyze the writings of Forum writers, who were young academics at a time when the whole world was undergoing a transformation, on the changing world order. In the first part of this study, Turkish foreign policy between 1945 and 1960 is analyzed in general terms. The foreign policy of the Republican People's Party, which was in power between 1945-1950, and the foreign policy of the Democratic Party, which was in power between 1950-1960, are analyzed. In the second part of the study, basic information about Forum magazine was given and the areas in which Forum magazine contributed to Turkish political and intellectual life were discussed. In the third part of the study, the publications of Forum magazine between 1954-1960 were analyzed and the articles published in the field of foreign policy were discussed. In the last part, the duties of writers of Forum magazine after their entry into politics and how each author views Kemalism is analyzed and also the duties of the Forum writers working in the field of foreign policy mentioned.