KASTAMONU MİLLETVEKİLİ YUSUF KEMAL BEY’İN MİLLÎ MÜCADELE DÖNEMİNDE AVRUPA EKSENLİ DIŞ POLİTİKA ÇALIŞMALARI
EUROPE-ORIENTED FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES OF YUSUF KEMAL BEY WHO IS PARLIAMENTARIAN OF KASTAMONU DURING WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

Summary/Abstract: Yusuf Kemal Bey witnessed the political and military events during the last period of the Ottoman State, but never lost his hope and believed that a new Turkish State could be established in place of the collapsed state. He was elected as the Kastamonu parliamentarian to the last of the Ottoman’s chamber of deputies and he came to Ankara after the occupation of Istanbul and joined the First parliament. Yusuf Kemal Bey gave 67 speeches in total, 36 of which were in secret sessions, during his first parliamentary period both as a member of parliament and a foreign minister. The large majority of those talks contains foreign policy issues. He emphasized the importance of international political agreements, securing the Eastern Border of Turkey, attached importance to the announcement and promotion of the national case to the whole world during the National War of Independence and after the victory. Yusuf Kemal Bey tried to lead up to the agreement with the Russians and signed the Moscow Agreement on 16 March 1921 and the Ankara Agreement with France on 20 October 1921 as the Head of Delegation. The most important feature of the foreign policy implemented by the Ankara Government in this period is that the war and diplomacy were carried out together and it was an example for the countries that fought against imperialism in the 20th century. This policy aims to establish a national state within national borders. Yusuf Kemal Bey was a politician who prepared the agreements that determined the main framework of the Turkish foreign policy during the liberation and establishment period of the New Turkish State and he especially did struggle with European states by himself. He was one of the most important politicians and scientists who accompanied Mustafa Kemal Pasha during this period. In this article, the activities of Yusuf Kemal Bey in the First parliament regarding foreign policy. It was evaluated by making use of the parliamentary documents of that period and especially Europe-Oriented foreign policy studies were emphasized.

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