IJOESS Year: 8, Vol:8, Issue: 30 DECEMBER 2017 PAN-TURANISTS’ EFFORT FOR ALLIANCE WITH NAZI GERMANY AND NAZI GERMANY’S PAN-TURANISM POLICIES Hakan GÖKPINAR Okutman, Bartın Üniversitesi,
[email protected] ORCID Numarası: 0000-0002-5965-6448 Received: 12.09.2017 Accepted: 13.12.2017 ABSTRACT Following the Turkish-German alliance on August 2, 1914, although Germany supported the Pan- Turan activities led by Enver Pasha, Enver Pasha’s activities also in Caucasia covering Baku oils conflicted with German interests, and Germany tried to prevent Enver Pasha’s activities in cooperation with Bolshevik Russia and Georgia. During the period of World War II, Hitler Germany considered the Turkish-German Friendship Treaty signed on June 18, 1941 as an opportunity to plunge Turkey into the war on Germany’s side against their sworn enemy, Russia. While Turkish Government preferred to maintain a balance policy by refusing to enter this war, leading Pan-Turanists in Turkey such as Enver Pasha’s brother Nuri Pasha and General Hüsnü Emir Erkilet considered this friendship treaty and Germany’s military clash with the Soviets as an opportunity to realize their Pan-Turanist ideals. However, considering Soviet Geography in which Turkish origin peoples also live as “German Life Space”, Nazi Germany made detailed studies on Turkish peoples’ ethnic, social, political and economic structures, also consulted opinions of Germany scientists who had worked on this region and on immigrants coming from that region. In light of these studies; it was determined that Caucasia did not consist of only Turkish peoples, Turkish peoples did not have Pan-Turanism awareness in a way to prompt them against Russian in a military and political way, even leaders of each Turkish people and Pan-Turanists in Turkey did not have union of ideas and hearts towards the ultimate goal.