Türkiye'deki anılarda İkinci Dünya Savaşı: 1939-1945
Özet
This MA thesis entitled "According to Turkish Memoirs, World War II (1939-1945)" tries to study Turkey's wartime political and socio-economic issues andsubsequents influences in the lights of memoirs. Thus it will be possible to give someexamples of the War and its events that resulted in various points of interest onsociety and politics in Turkey and the world during the War.Since every country experienced different experiences during World War II,this study aims to contribute to the comparison of various issues and events throughthe memories (those extracted from memoir books, related books or periodicals)reflecting the individual and social impacts of the War.While prefix deals with what is memories and the essence of memories inhistory literature, the first chapter deals with the pre-war era, the second chapter isabout the war-time foreign policies of Turkey and Europe and affects of war onTurkey. The third one focus on the intensified diplomatic negotiations in the lastyears of the War and Turkey's efforts to avoid involvement in spite of herdeclaration of War against the Axis powers in February 1945.