1917 Bolşevik Devrimi'nin Osmanlı Mebuslar Meclisi ve Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi'ndeki yankıları
Özet
This dissertation entitled `Repercussions of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution onthe Ottoman Chamber of Deputies and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey?evaluates the theme as to how the Revolution was discussed and understood by theOttoman Chamber and the Assembly of the Turkish Republic, a modern state whichwas emerged in 1923 from the ruins of the declining Ottoman Empire.The first chapter contains a historical overview of the events in chronologicalorder concerning the nature, origins and consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution.Among the issues addressed in the second chapter are ones on the level ofattention paid by the Ottoman Press towards the Revolution and on the range of thePress? sources of news. This chapter also examines the evaluations of the Ottomanadministration and the Chamber regarding the Revolution of Bolshevik Russia andher withdrawal from the World War I--which both were explicitly interrelated.Nature of views expressed by the Turkish Nationalist Press and that of theTurkish Republican Assembly on Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Revolution aretouched upon in the third chapter. The Republican Assembly?s assessment includesthe view point of the newly emerged Turkish state --of which national strugglepassed through immensely difficult stages of foundation against the colonial-policypatterns of the imperialistic big powers-- on her north neighbouring country, theSoviet Russia. The details mentioned within this framework refer the revolutionarysense of matters more than the functionality of diplomatic relations developedbetween these two countries.Finally, the general principles of the sound state policy followed by the founderof the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, are presented within the conclusiveframework of the dissertation.