From Enemies to Allies: Turkey and Britain, 1918-1960

ISBN-13: 9781032399539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 270 str.

Macarthur-Seal, Daniel-Joseph

Opis

This edited collection uses new sources to address issues as diverse as the Turkey–Iraq frontier, colonial governance in Cyprus, the legal rights of foreigners in Istanbul, commercial relations through the era of the Great Depression, contested neutrality in the Second World War, and the search for new alliances in the Cold War.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Turkey and Britain, 1918–1960   Section 1: The Interwar Period  2. Resurrecting legal extraterritoriality in occupied Istanbul, 1918–1923  3. Elusive forces in illusive eyes: British officialdom's perception of the Anatolian resistance movement  4. Making borders from below: the emergence of the Turkish–Iraqi Frontier, 1918–1925  5. Great Britain and ‘a small and poor peasant state’: Turkey, Britain and the 1930 Anglo-Turkish Treaty of Commerce and Navigation  6. Turkish–British relations in the 1930s: from ambivalence to partnership  Section 2: The Second World War  7. Turkey and Britain in World War II: Origins and results of the Tripartite Alliance, 1935–40  8. Turkish foreign policy in the chaos of war, 1939–1945  9. ‘A friendly neutral’: Churchill and Turkey in the Second World War  10. ‘To accustom Turkish minds to a state of belligerency’: The delicate balance of British propaganda in Turkey during the Second World War  Section 3: The early Cold War  11. A tepid alliance: Britain and Turkey in the post-war and early cold war years  12. The transformation of Britain-Turkey-United States relations at the advent of the Cold War (1945–1952)  13. British foreign policy and military strategy: the contradictions of declining imperial power and the Baghdad Pact, 1947–55  14. From indifference to independence: Turkey’s shifting Cyprus policy in the 1950s  15. Playing the Turkish card: British policy and Cyprus in the 1950s