3/ An impossible friendship: differences and similarities between fascist Italy’s and Kemalist Turkey’s foreign policies
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 22, 2|2015
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Italiano
Nonostante un periodo di costruttiva collaborazione e significative affinità tra i due regimi, l’Italia fascista e la Turchia kemalista dimostrano di essere sostanzialmente in antitesi nel rispettivo approccio alle relazioni internazionali. L’Italia di Mussolini sviluppa una politica estera aggressiva e revisionista, mentre la Turchia repubblicana, vinta la guerra di indipendenza, prova a costruire pacifici e solidi rapporti con i vicini. L’analisi dei rapporti bilaterali tra Italia e Turchia negli anni ’20 e ’30, chiarisce la ragione del diverso comportamento adottato dai due paesi alla vigilia di e durante il secondo conflitto mondiale.
Parole chiave: fascismo, Intesa, kemalismo, Mediterraneo, primo dopoguerra.
English
Despite a period of “warmth” and some similarities between the two regimes, fascist Italy and Kemalist Turkey proved to be very different in their approach to international relations. Italy showed a very aggressive and revisionist foreign policy, whereas Turkey, won the Independence war, tried to build solid and peaceful relations with its neighbors. The analysis of Turkish-Italian bilateral relation in the 1920s and late 1930s explains the reason of the different behavior which the two countries adopted on the eve of and during the Second World War.
Keywords: Entente, Fascism, interwar, Kemalism, Mediterranean.
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Nicola Degli Esposti holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degrees in History from the University of Bologna. He is now a student of the Master programme in Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University, and currently a visiting student of the Middle Eastern Technical University (METU) in Ankara.
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Degli Esposti, Nicola, «An impossible friendship: differences and similarities between fascist Italy’s and Kemalist Turkey’s foreign policies», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 22, 2|2015
URL: <http://www.studistorici.com/2015/06/29/degliesposti_numero_22/>
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«An impossible friendship: differences and similarities between fascist Italy’s and Kemalist Turkey’s foreign policies» by Nicola Degli Esposti / Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione 2.5 Italia License.
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Entente, Fascism, Fascismo, interwar, Intesa, Kemalism, kemalismo, Mediterranean, Mediterraneo, primo dopoguerra
