Following the Second World War, Turkey vigorously pursued a policy of effective participation in international institutions. As part of this policy, Turkish diplomats campaigned for a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council in the year 1948. This article aims to provide descriptive information about this campaign and explain why Turkey lost the election in the UN General Assembly for the seat reserved for the Near East region. In doing so, the article primarily uses historical documents from the Foreign Relations of the United States (frus) series because they provide very detailed information about backstage diplomacy, motivations of candidate countries, and opinions of the US diplomats about candidates. The article concludes that it was the US Cold War policies that influenced the outcome of the 1948 election. Although it was publicly known that the US supported Turkey in this election, a closer examination of the American diplomatic documents reveals that the US voted for Egypt in order to keep it in the Western camp.

二战后，土耳其大力推行有效参与国际机构的政策。作为这项政策的一部分，土耳其外交官在 1948 年竞选联合国安理会非常任理事国席位。本文旨在提供有关此次竞选的描述性信息，并解释为什么土耳其在联合国大会选举中失去席位保留给近东地区。为此，本文主要使用了美国对外关系部( frus) 的历史文献。) 系列，因为它们提供了有关后台外交、候选国动机以及美国外交官对候选国的看法的非常详细的信息。文章的结论是，影响 1948 年大选结果的是美国的冷战政策。尽管众所周知美国在这次选举中支持土耳其，但仔细研究美国的外交文件发现，美国投票支持埃及是为了将其留在西方阵营。