Studies in Atatürk's Turkey
Subtitle: the American dimension
By: edited by George S. Harris and Nur Bilge Criss.
Contributors: Harris, George S. 1931-; Criss, Bilge.
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 40
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9789004174344
Subjects: Atatürk, Kemal, -- 1881-1938; Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Diplomats -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- Turkey; Turkey -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1923-1929; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1929-1933; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945; Turkey -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1960
Description: Nearly all of the previous scholarship on Turkey and U.S. relations cover the Cold War period as well as current affairs with regard to security, strategy, and defense. Hence, the literature abounds with military orientation. This edited volume builds on a historical perspective and focuses on foreign relations, diplomacy, actors, mutual perceptions and reciprocity in diplomatic relations within the framework of the world conjuncture in the 1920s and 1930s. Relations with the U.S.A. have served as a balance in Turkey's Euro-Atlantic policy long before NATO was established. Likewise, re-building relations with the Republic of Turkey served U.S. interests in opening to the Near East and thus breaking away from its much lauded isolationist policy between the two world wars. Thus, the picture that emerges here is just as much a history of U.S. diplomacy as it is of Turkey. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Suhnaz Yilmaz; title: Louis E. Browne and the leaders of the 1919 Sivas Congress / Secil Karal Akgun; title: The General Harbord Commission and the American mandate question / Secil Karal Akgun; title: Turkey and her nationalist leaders as seen in the 1923 reports of Louise Bryant / Howard A. Reed; title: Shades of diplomatic recognition : American encounters with Turkey (1923-1937) / Nur Bilge Criss; title: Repairing Turkish-American relations after the First World War : Ahmet Muhtar in Washington / George S. Harris; title: Cementing Turkish-American relations : the ambassadorship of (Mehmet) Munir Ertegun (1934-1944) / George S. Harris; title: Epilogue / Nur Bilge Criss; title: Appendix: Condensed memorandum concerning the organization and points of view of the League for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia.