The Approach of Turkish-American Accord

ISBN-13: 9783639134551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 116 str.

Adam B. McConnel

Opis

Turkish-American relations have more than 200 yearsof history, but the agreements cemented after WWIIbrought unprecedented mutual political, economic, andcultural exchange to the two nations. Traditionalscholarship has located the impetus for thisdevelopment in the geopolitical strategies ofthe Soviet Union, to which the United States wasforced to react. This study re-examines one aspectof this traditional interpretation, concluding that,according to the information published by Ulusnewspaper (the contemporary Turkish governmentssemi-official mouthpiece) before and during WWII, theTurkish government was already pro-American beforeWWII, stayed firmly pro-Allies during the war, andbecame even more staunchly pro-American as the warwound down into the new bipolar world. The authorcloses the text by calling for a reappraisal of theroots of postwar Turkish-American developmentsthrough new research on relations between the twocountries in the 1930s and during WWII. This studywill be of interest to those examining the sources ofTurkish-U.S. post-WWII relations, or the avenuesthrough which U.S. culture has made its way into theTurkish public space.

O autorze

Adam B. McConnel, MA History Sabanc University 2008, is a
History PhD candidate at Sabanc University in Istanbul. His
research interests focus on Turkish-U.S. relations and Turkish
Republican history. He has resided in Istanbul since 1999.