Reflections of the Saadabad Pact in Cumhurıyet and Ulus Newspapers

After her establishment under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, one of the preferential aims of new Turkish Republic is securing continuity and safety of the new established state. For this purpose, the new Turkish state after her establishment follows the way of setting up peace and friendship relations with all states of the world, developing her mutual relations with 1 Saadâbad Paktı, Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra, Ortadoğu’da barış ve güvenliği sağlamak üzere yapılan ve İran, Irak, Afganistan ve Türkiye arasında, saldırmazlık, kışkırtmalardan kaçınma ve bölge barışı için istişareleri içeren bir anlaşmadır. Resmi adı “Türkiye, Afganistan, Irak ve İran Saldırmazlık Antlaşması”dır. İsmail Soysal, “1937 Sâdâbat Paktı”, Çağdaş Türk Diplomasisi: 200 Yıllık Süreç, TTK Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, s. 327. * Arş. Gör., Sakarya Ü. Fen-Ed. Fak. Tarih Böl. El-mek: tturan@sakarya.edu.tr ** T. C. Tarihi Bilim Uzmanı. El-mek: esinatik@gmail.com 1750 Tufan TURAN-Esin TÜYLÜ TURAN Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 6/3 Summer 2011 foreign states and signing friendship and cooperation agreements with them. In this frame, she follows a policy to set up regional alliances. The first step of this policy was the Balkan Entente dated 9 February 1934 which is signed after an intense diplomacy. After securing the west borders with Balkan Entente, Turkish Republic changes her route to East to set up peace and friendship relations there in order to secure Eastern borders. Such as the intense diplomacy followed before the Balkan Entente, before the Saadâbad Pact (Eastern Pact) dated 9 July 1937 a solid diplomacy had been followed. With this work, it is aimed to determine and display reflections of this process to two important Turkish Newspapers named Ulus and Cumhuriyet. News about this subject processed with secondary hand resources and also some quotations have been made from foreign press.