Türkiye'nin Bolşeviklerle ilişkileri (1919-1922)

ABSTRACTErsoy-McMeekin, NesrinM.A. Department of International RelationsSupervisor: Asst. Prof. Nur Bilge CrissMay 2007While the Russian Empire was completely destroyed by the BolshevikRevolution of 6-7 November 1917, the Ottoman Empire gave its last breath in MudrosArmistice in 18 October 1918. There would be a new beginning without return forboth nations from then on. The Bolshevik Government in Russia and AnkaraGovernment, which was the leader of the resistance in Turkey, started to fight againstthe common enemy. Both of the governments aimed to prove themselves, whileBolsheviks were trying to declare and expand their regimes and movements, to theWorld. Right at that point, Moscow and Ankara became allies against the ImperialistEuropean States. However, their friendship was not without a cost. While Bolshevikswere aiming to expand their regimes to Anatolia and if possible aimed to makeAnatolia a Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Kemalists aimed to get material andspiritual support of the Bolsheviks without adopting their regimes in Anatolia. Thus,Turkish-Bolshevik relations would change everyday according to these aims. Thisstudy evaluates the relations between the Bolshevik Government in Russia and theNationalist Movement (later Ankara Government) in Turkey during the Turkish Warof Independence, and explains the dimensions and reasons of this alliance.