The place of Italy in Turkish foreign policy in the 1930s

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ID10280774
AuthorsMehmet Doğar (0000-0001-5590-0143, University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume58
Issue1
Pages48-69
Publication date2021-08-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMiddle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-3206 • E-ISSN: 1743-7881
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00263206.2021.1955353
OpenAlexW3191026860
LanguageEN
Citations received1

For many scholars working on Turkish foreign policy in the 1930s, Italy is taken as the greatest threat to the newly-established Republic and one that dominated Turkish foreign policy making in this period. Italy did adopt a threating stance with the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese islands and its expansionist aims in Asia and Africa, which were a cause of concern for the Turkish government. A re-examination of the Turkish-Italian political and economic relations within the broader context of the Mediterranean and the great power politics of the period, however, demonstrates that the bilateral relations, at least officially, functioned without any significant and lasting crisis until the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939. What motivated and drove Turkish thinking and decision-making in the international arena was not Italy’s actions per se but the insecurity in the Mediterranean and beyond of which Italy was a part

Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Expansionism · Foreign policy · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Turkish · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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