BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI’NIN ARDINDAN OSMANLI ORTADOĞUSU’NDA YENİ DÜZEN ARAYIŞLARINDAN BİR KESİT: İRAN’IN MUSUL SİYASETİ (1918-1926)
AN EXAMPLE OF THE SEARCH FOR A NEW ORDER IN THE OTTOMAN MIDDLE EAST AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR: IRAN'S MOSUL POLICY (1918-1926)

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the strategies and activities developed by Iran towards Mosul, one of the most important centers of the Ottoman Middle East, from 1918, which symbolizes the last year of the First World War, to the Ankara Agreement signed between Turkey and England in June 1926. Although the Mosul issue has been examined in world historiography with a Turkey and Britain-centered approach, within the framework of the invisible face of the issue, Iran has attached geopolitical and geostrategic importance to Mosul, with the aim of filling the power vacuum that emerged here after the end of the First World War. As a matter of fact, the study broadly touches on the struggles that Iran has entered into with the UK and Turkey for Mosul. Thus, the study has devoted itself to explaining what the solution of the issue means in terms of regional dynamism by introducing the existence of a third power other than Turkey and the UK in the Mosul issue into academic writing. In addition the study argues in the conclusion that although the First World War officially ended in 1918, its repercussions continued for a long time in different parts of the Ottoman geography such as Mosul and even extended to the present day.

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