İtobiad (Jun 2023)
Turkey-Spain Relations in the Period Between the Two World Wars (1923-1939)
Abstract
The period of World War I and World War II is a very important period of time for Turkey and Spain, where the struggle for existence and survival is experienced. The relationship between the states of Türkiye and Spain, which are located at two different ends of the Mediterranean, goes back a long way in terms of historical process. The study dealt with the relations between the Republic of Türkiye and Spain from a political and economic point of view between the years 1923-1939 and tried to analyze how cyclical developments affect bilateral relations. The main question sought to be answered in the study was how the relations of Türkiye and Spain, which lived through the periods of the Kingdom, the Republic and the Civil War from 1923 to 1939, developed politically and economically in all three phases. The study evaluates Türkiye-Spain relations from the perspective of Türkiye with the method of document analysis between the years 1923-1939 and evaluates them from the perspective of Turkish foreign policy. In the study, which was handled in terms of archival sources, official and periodicals and secondary sources of the Republic of Türkiye, the phases of Türkiye-Spain relations between the years 1923-1939, which can be considered as early, were discussed in terms of Türkiye and evaluated in terms of historical perspective. The study is expected to be a source of literature on the relations between Spain and Türkiye with its original sources, broad perspective, analysis and originality. Considering the Türkiye-Spain relations between 1923-1939, it was seen that the will of the two countries to realize bilateral relations was not at the desired level due to the unstable political developments in Spain.
