From Enemies to Allies

Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal received his PhD in history from the University of Cambridge and is currently Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, where he researches the social history of Istanbul during the armistice and early Republican period. Dilek Barlas received her PhD in history from the University of Chicago and has been teaching Turkish and European history at Koc University, Istanbul, since 1993. Barlas has books and many articles published in international journals on Balkan and Mediterranean history, the history of European integration and 20th-century Turkish-British-US relations. William Hale is Emeritus Professor, and formerly Professor of Turkish Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. He is a specialist on the politics of the Middle East, especially Turkey, in which he has been interested since his student days.

1. Introduction: Turkey and Britain, 1918–1960 Section 1: The Interwar Period 2. Resurrecting legal extraterritoriality in occupied Istanbul, 1918–1923 3. Elusive forces in illusive eyes: British officialdom's perception of the Anatolian resistance movement 4. Making borders from below: the emergence of the Turkish–Iraqi Frontier, 1918–1925 5. Great Britain and ‘a small and poor peasant state’: Turkey, Britain and the 1930 Anglo-Turkish Treaty of Commerce and Navigation 6. Turkish–British relations in the 1930s: from ambivalence to partnership Section 2: The Second World War 7. Turkey and Britain in World War II: Origins and results of the Tripartite Alliance, 1935–40 8. Turkish foreign policy in the chaos of war, 1939–1945 9. ‘A friendly neutral’: Churchill and Turkey in the Second World War 10. ‘To accustom Turkish minds to a state of belligerency’: The delicate balance of British propaganda in Turkey during the Second World War Section 3: The early Cold War 11. A tepid alliance: Britain and Turkey in the post-war and early cold war years 12. The transformation of Britain-Turkey-United States relations at the advent of the Cold War (1945–1952) 13. British foreign policy and military strategy: the contradictions of declining imperial power and the Baghdad Pact, 1947–55 14. From indifference to independence: Turkey’s shifting Cyprus policy in the 1950s 15. Playing the Turkish card: British policy and Cyprus in the 1950s