Milli Mücadele Dönemi'nde Amerikan Wilson Propagandası

Abstract

The Turkish National Struggle was not only an armed resistance movement in which the Turkish Nation came together against the occupation of the country. It is a multifaceted national and nationalist struggle. Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the European states, whose political, economic and religious influence on imperial territories gradually increased, have struggled to be decisive in the establishment of a New World Order (the Vienna, Paris and Berlin Congresses that took place in the 19th century and the scheme set in these congresses) after the First World War. While waging this struggle, they also pursued policies in line with their internal national and external international public opinion. They employed the political propaganda machine to direct domestic and foreign public opinion through their own theses. This thesis is going to analyze the period while the United States, which took its place on the side of the Allies in World War I, was deciding on the future of the Ottoman lands and the State after the war, questioning how the American propaganda, which it shaped in this direction by agreeing or disagreeing with its interests and allies, found a place in the Turkish National Struggle Movement; and, on the other side, how the policies and methods chosen by the mind, political and military delegation of the National Struggle, especially Atatürk as the leader, against the American propaganda, scrutinizing the actors on the Turkish and American sides, and the mass media of the period. This analysis is built on the historical process of the formation and existence of the social and cultural image of the other within the framework of the contradictions of old and new, which are mutually embedded in the memories of the Turkish and American sides.