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İngilizlerin Bakış Açısından Balkan Savaşları Sırasındaki Gelişmelerin Değerlendirilmesi
The Evaluation of Developments During Balkan Wars From The British Perspective

Author(s): Levent Yikici
Subject(s): Military history, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Kilis 7 Aralık Üniversity
Keywords: Balkan Wars; British Confidential Documents; Great Britain; Russia; Ottoman Empire;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research is to evaluate the reflections of the developments during the Balkan Wars to British archive documents. To this end, secretly classified British documents from different sources were examined and the findings were presented to form a meaningful whole. The findings of the research are thought to be important to reveal the British Empire‘s point of view, which was the superpower of the era, to the Ottoman State. As a result of the research, British archival documents show that most of the developments in the Balkan War were based on the Bulgarians' outstand to the Çatalca line, the invasion of Thessaloniki by the Allied forces and the maritime struggles between the Greeks and the Turks. While the findings were presented chronologically around these main themes, it was endeavored to explain and analyze the British attitude towards the developments which are told.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 98-119
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Turkish