In World War II, the Turkish foreign policy varied according to the course of the war. President İsmet İnönü declared the differences in foreign policy with his speeches at the Turkish Grand National Assembly on the first day of November of every year. Turkey in the first year of the war (September 1939- June 1941) was faced with the threat of occupied by the two colossal forces Germany and the USSR. After Operation Barbarossa, It was been passed to a relatively safer period. After the result of the war began to become clear, this time ıt started to face hostile policies towards the political existence of the USSR. Turkey, using all diplomatic means to preserve the independence and the threat of invasion during the war in the hands tried to frustrate. Pro-German Turkic-Turanist movements were one of the elements used by the government in foreign policy for this purpose. The study has two main aims. The first one is to examine the cyclical changes in Turkish foreign policy through the speeches of İnönü, the main actor of these policies. The second one is to identify the reflections of the periodic differences in foreign policy on the Turkish government's policies towards Turkic-Turanian movements.
Keywords: İsmet İnönü, Turkish foreign policy, Turkist-Turanist Movements, Germany, USSR
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