Abstract

For many scholars working on Turkish foreign policy in the 1930s, Italy is taken as the greatest threat to the newly-established Republic and one that dominated Turkish foreign policy making in this period. Italy did adopt a threating stance with the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese islands and its expansionist aims in Asia and Africa, which were a cause of concern for the Turkish government. A re-examination of the Turkish-Italian political and economic relations within the broader context of the Mediterranean and the great power politics of the period, however, demonstrates that the bilateral relations, at least officially, functioned without any significant and lasting crisis until the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939. What motivated and drove Turkish thinking and decision-making in the international arena was not Italy’s actions per se but the insecurity in the Mediterranean and beyond of which Italy was a part.

摘要

对于 1930 年代研究土耳其外交政策的许多学者而言，意大利被视为新成立的共和国的最大威胁，也是这一时期土耳其外交政策制定的主导者。意大利确实对意大利占领多德卡尼斯群岛及其在亚洲和非洲的扩张目标采取了威胁的立场，这引起了土耳其政府的关注。然而，在更广泛的地中海背景下重新审视土耳其 - 意大利的政治和经济关系以及这一时期的大国政治，表明双边关系，至少是正式的，没有任何重大和持久的危机，直到1939年意大利入侵阿尔巴尼亚。