Abstract:

In the period of 1945-1950 the Republican People’s Party (CHP) launched a US-oriented foreign policy which was largely followed by the Democrat Party (DP) in the 1950s. This policy was mainly derived from the class and ideological structures of the Republic, but not from “the Soviet Threat” which considerably influenced the foreign policies of surrounding states of Soviet Union after the Second World War. In other words, class and ideological structure of the Republic, unavoidably, led the country to produce US-oriented foreign policies that affected the Turkish economy, politics, legislation and judiciary systems negatively. In the field of military, this policy of the Republic generated two main consequences, one being positive and the other negative. The positive consequence was that, the American aids and accession to NATO enabled Turkish Military to modernize and strengthen itself, whereas the negative consequence was a very significant increase in its dependency to the USA.

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