Abstract:

In this study, the visit of one of the leading Bolsheviks, Russian Statesman and Red Army Commander General Mihail Vasilyevich Frunze to Ankara at the end of 1921 and the Turkey-Ukraine Friendship and Brotherhood Treaty signed at the beginning of 1922 are explained. Following the Moscow Treaty signed between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Government of the Turkish Grand National Assembly on March 16, 1921, a friendship treaty between the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Parliamentary Government came to the agenda. Thereupon, M. V. Frunze was appointed as the “Extraordinary Authorized Representative” by the Ukrainian Soviet Government. General Frunze, who made various contacts with his delegation in Ankara, also met with Mustafa Kemal Pasha twice. In this study, which deals with Turkish-Soviet relations during the period of the War of Independence, the visit of the Ukrainian delegation headed by M. V. Frunze to Turkey, their contacts and negotiations, and the signed friendship and brotherhood treaty, the archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, the archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey State Archives, the memoirs of historical figures who witnessed the meetings, especially those written by M. V. Frunze about this visit, newspapers and official publications of the period were examined. In addition to these, various research and examination works were also used.