MODULE I:

FOREIGN POLICY OF TURKISH

REPUBLIC DURING 1930’S AND 1940’S
AND 2ND WORLD WAR ERA
TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY
1923-1945
«Peace at home, peace abroad.»
Mosul Issue
1932-Turkey became a member of League of Nations
1930s-Regional Alliances
 Balkan Entente Pact (1934)
 Montreux Convention (1936)
 Sadabad Pact (1937)

End of 1930’s closer relationship with the Great Powers

Hatay Issue (Sanjak of Alexandretta)
 World War II, also known as
TURKEY AND THE SECOND the Second World War, was a
global war that lasted from
WORLD WAR 1939 to 1945. The vast
majority of the world's
countries including all the
How did the Second World War start? great Powers, eventually
 Appeasement Policy formed two opposing military
alliances: the Allies and the
Axis.
The process of the Second World War
 Blitzkrieg tactic of the Germans
 Operation Barbarossa and German invasion of Soviet Union. Active Neutrality: A policy of
 Japanese attack to Pearl Harbor in 1941. offering support to one side in
a conflict or dispute without
directly participating in that
Foreign Policy of Turkey During the Second World War: conflict or dispute.
In the Turkish case for 2nd
 Active Neutrality World War, Turkey offered
support to both sides
depending on who is winning.
TURKEY AND THE SECOND
WORLD WAR

Domestic Effects of the Second World War:
National Defence Law (1940)
Wealth Tax (1942)
Milli Korunma Kanunu (National
Defence Law-1940) : The law was
declared in January 1940. By this law,
Turkish government had the right of
decide the prices of goods,
confiscation and involuntary servitude
WEALTH TAX (1942)
 WARTIME CONDITIONS IN
TURKEY

A newspaper article informing about the limited and

controlled bread distribution during the Second A bread ration card distributed by the state
World War. during the Second World War.