Özet:

After the major events affecting the whole world, a new order is established and the actors change. The First World War brought a new order, the empires destroyed, and the actors in Europe changed. In Russia it was conflict and the Tsar Russia left its place to the Bolshevik Russia, Germany was defeated, controlled by the Wersailles Treaty. The Ottoman State had completed its life by defeating the war, leaving its place to Turkey, which was ruled by the national and republican regime. On the other hand, while Britain and France, which were among the victories of the war, became countries that directed the statue, Italy began to be ruled by a fascist system and showed an aggressive attitude in foreign policy. The rapid change that took place in Europe after Adolf Hitler, who supported the Nazi Party and the change of the statute in Germany, had brought the world to the threshold of a new war. These sudden changes have also brought a number of changes in the previous intergovernmental relations. As a result of the Second World War and the impact of this war on the relations, Turkey's relations with the Soviets and the Western states moved to a new dimension. Turkey, which wanted to guarantee its security and be as little as possible affected by the war, had revised its relations with the states according to the impact of the events that occurred. One of the developments that directed Turkey’s foreign policy was the alliance that Britain and France signed in Ankara. Turkey, due to its geographical position, is obliged to monitor a sensitive balance in its alliances. Specifically, the change of the Soviet Russia’s attitude towards Turkey forced Turkey to sign an alliance with Britain and France. This process has been influenced by the Turkish press, and the government has used the press as a tool. Despite the signing of the Turkish-English-French Alliance in Ankara on 19 October 1939, in order to avoid the reaction of other countries, including the Soviet Russia, the government activated the press on its optimistic forecast on the content and consequences of this alliance. In our study, we will try to show how the Turkish-English-French Alliance, signed under the conditions of the Second World War, was addressed in the press of the period, and how the press was tried to be used to show the optimistic side of the purpose of this alliance against other countries.