Müzakereden Muahedeye: Türkiye ile İsviçre İlişkileri Bağlamında Türkiye’deki İsviçreli Göçmenlerin Durumu (1918-1965)
From Negotiation to Agreement: The Situation of Swiss Immigrants in Türkiye in Context of Relations between Switzerland and Türkiye (1918-1965)

Summary/Abstract: The issue of migration and migrants has been institutionalized since the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire established commercial, political, economic and social interaction and communication not only with Muslims but also with non-Muslims, both through the people living in the Ottoman lands and the people living in the border countries and has introduced various regulations on these over the decades. At the end of the First World War and during the construction process of Republican Turkey, policy about migration and migrants was brought to the agenda during the Lausanne Conference yet. The delegation participating in the conference held discussions on this issue in Lausanne. In these negotiations, there are also Swiss officials, who were not actually involved in the conference. Discussions about the Swiss, who are represented since the Ottoman Era in smaller numbers than citizens of other European countries, has started during this conference, and the subsequent process was determined by the foreign policy principles of the Ankara government after Lausanne. Switzerland appears to have adopted at a later stage the new process that includes the recognition of Ankara as the capital, the new government's full independence in the international arena and that is based on the understanding of fundamental and official treaty texts than Germany and Austria. Trade and Residence agreements for Turkish citizens going to Switzerland or Swiss citizens coming from Switzerland lasted for a long time because of this reason but signed on its reciprocity merits between the two countries ultimately.

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