Abstract
The process, which covered 1918-1939 had a significant impact on the political tendencies, balances and power centers in the world in the long and short terms with its global and regional effects, led to the focus of some important problems in Turkish foreign policy. During the interwar period, the Sandjak of Alexanderetta/Hatay question was among the important issues of Turkish foreign policy. In addition to methods such as creating propaganda and creating cultural influence on the national, local and international scales, many effective and persistent efforts made in the political/diplomatic sense in order to find a definitive solution to this problem. Thus, the diplomatic success of Turkey in the process of Hatay’s first independence and its accession to Turkey can be examined through many important documents classified in the Diplomatic Archives of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although the Hatay question had been examined within the scope of many academic and scientific studies which had handled within the framework of different types of archival documents, this study focuses on the examination of the archival documents that had not been included in the previous publications on the Hatay question. The aim of the study is to reveal the processes of the solution of the Hatay question, on the axis of the archival documents which had been recently made accessible. In this context, the diplomatic success of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, based on the motto of peace at home and peace in the world, Atatürk emphasized sensitively on the way to the solution of the problem, that will be examined in the light of the documents.
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