Özet:

Foreign policy pursued by Tsarist Russia / Soviet Russia was one of the main external dynamics over two ancient nations of the world history, Poles’ and Turks’ bilateral relations, during both the Ottoman Empire era and the formative period of the Republic of Turkey. Even though domestic political environments in both Poland and Turkey experienced drastic changes-transformations in the beginning of 20th century, the Russian/Soviet reality continued to maintain its presence over their grand foreign policy strategies and bilateral relations. It was the act of balancing strategy against the main external threat, Russia that determined the relations between Poland and the Ottoman Empire. During the National Struggle (The Turkish War of Independence), the consensus with the chief ally, Soviet Russia, was largely decisive in the Turkish Grand National Assembly-Poland relations. In this respect, it may be argued that what caused the continuity in the same basic external dynamics –positive or negative- of Turkey-Poland relations, was the continuity of international system during aforementioned period and the stable conditions of external threat elements in the region that includes Poland-Turkey-Soviet Russia. This study examines the main sections of the process that leads to the establishment of Turkey-Poland relations and through the analysis of developments in bilateral relations between Soviet Russia-Poland and Turkey-Soviet Russia, the influence of Soviet Russia as an external dynamic over Turkey-Poland relations is evaluated.

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