Özet:

After the breakdown of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in the end of World War I, the Czechs and Slovaks united to establish the Czech Republic. Since Slovaks were more interested in agriculture, the Czechs held the country’s heavy industry in their hands. In this powerful industrial structure of Czechoslovakia, Skoda weapons and automotive factories have had an important place. Turkey has tried to acquire military equipment from countries such as Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Britain and the Netherlands for land, sea and air weapons between the two world wars. Czechoslovakia and the Skoda Weapons Factory manufactured specially for ball and ball munitions. The Turkish government purchased various weapons and war equipment from the Skoda Arms Factory in different dates from 1923 to 1939. This weapons trade has made a series of agreements between the Skoda Company and the Turkish government inevitable. In the context of these agreements, Turkish officers arrived in Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovak consultants arrived in Turkey. While some problems occurred between the government and the company, the relations continued until 1939. This study and arms sales are kept secret because of the quantities of weapons and war materials that have not been identified in much detail, but the existence of the trade and the problems it faces have been revealed. In this study, the Prime Minister's Republic Archive took advantage of books, articles and periodic publications.

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