Abstract:

After the victory of the TGNA Government against the Greeks in Sakarya, England made some attempts to establish peace in Asia Minor. One of these initiatives was the conference of Foreign Ministers of the Allied Powers met in Paris in March 1922. British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon, who obtained a promise from Greece to leave its own interests in the hands of the Allies in order to ensure peace in the Orient; Considering England's interests in the Straits, the Middle East and India, he worked for the Allies to reach a common decision on peace. Thereby England wanted to both ensure the control of the Straits, curb the possibility of Bolshevik Russia's expansion to the west and south, learn the extent of the closeness of the TGNA Government with the Bolsheviks, and calm the reaction of the Indo-Islamic public opinion and eliminate the unrest in the Middle and Far East. The TGNA Government, which did not hide its stance in favor of peace, sent the Minister of Foreign Affairs to European capitals to hold talks. However, since the decisions of the Paris Conference were planned on the basis of an armistice and then a ceasefire, these decisions were met with suspicion in the eyes of a nation that had recently experienced the Armistice of Mudros. Even though the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) has revealed its intention in the form of release and then peace negotiations, peace has always remained in the rhetoric during the ongoing process around mutual memorandums. In this study, England's attitude towards the Anatolian peace that it has kept harping on has been tried to be conveyed through the British Cabinet Documents, the House of Commons and the Turkish Grand National Assembly Minutes

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