Kazım Karabekir’in Eserlerinde Almanlar ve Almanya
Germans and Germany in Kazim Karabekir Works

Summary/Abstract: It is well documented that Turkish-German relations were significant before and during World War I. Particularly during the time of Sultan Abdülhamid II, Germany got closely involved with the Ottoman Empire as a balance against other sources of power. During the World War I, and in Kazım Karabekir Pasha’s words; “Germans largely benefited from the Turkish army on which they operated so much during the World War I.” Kazım Karabekir Pasha, a soldier at Eastern Anatolia during the late Ottoman Empire period and early Republic of Turkey period, studied at Kuleli Military High School, War College and Imperial Military Staff College. Working with German officers of various military ranks throughout his military career, he was inspired by them. Among the German officers he worked with are Helmuth von Moltke, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, and Port von Sanders. Kazım Karabekir Pasha has made significant observations and analyses about the activities of those pashas in Turkey, as well as the causes for the decline of Ottoman Empire and society. Kazım Karabekir Pasha makes significant remarks on how the Germans developed a national consciousness in a very short time, and how they came to be one of the world’s top countries in terms of military and economic power, and finally on how the German army led their nation through this path. In his works, Kazım Karabekir Pasha provides information about Germans and Germany's history, the way Germans developed national consciousness, the German army, the German culture, and religion. This study attempts to shed light on Turkish-German relations of the time from Kazim Karabekir's perspective.

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