2024. no 1. Ionuț Cojocaru

Perspectives of Turkish foreign policy based
on analysis of Romanian documents

Ionuț Cojocaru

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

Abstract. After 29 October 1923, when the status of the nation as a republic was declared and its official name was proclaimed to be Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (“the Republic of Turkey”), the officials followed a defensive policy and the Turkish status became part of defensive alliances. In this sense, treaties with the USSR were signed, Turkey was part of the Balkan Agreement and had agreements with Great Britain, France, etc. An increased attention was paid to the Balkan space where the legacy of the Ottoman Empire was visible. Ankara’s diplomats appealed to the Turkish-Tatar communities that lived in the geographical area of Balkans to move to the new Turkish state. The Treaty of Lausanne and then the Treaty of Montreux were vital – in the first – for the security of the new Turkish state, but also for the states bordering the Black Sea. From political point of view, the main priority of the foreign turkish policy was to pursue an alliances policy, seeking to maintain and consacrate by treaties its territorial integrity stability in its own influence areas.

Keywords: Turkey, Romania, Lausanne, League of Nations, USSR, Dobrogea, Tatars, Emigration

For citation: Cojocaru I. Perspectives of Turkish foreign policy based on analysis of Romanian documents. Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2024, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 124–143. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2024.1.124-143

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About the author: Ionuț Cojocaru – Ph.D. (History), Associate Professor of the Department of Training for Teaching Careers and Social and Human Sciences, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (313, Splaiul Indepen­dentei, Bucharest 060042, Romania); Corresponding member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists; Historical Scien­ces and Archeology Section; ORCID: 0009-0002-8233-5738; ccojocaru2903@upb.ro