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United Kingdoms Balkan Policy and Greece (1821-1830)

Hasan Demirhan

22 Nisan 2016 Cuma 17:00 Salon: ŞAKİR KOCABAŞ SALONU

On April 22th 2016, Center for Turkish Studies will host Hasan Demirhan* under the diskussions theses-articles. Demirhan will deliver a speech about “United Kingdoms Balkan Policy and Greece"** based on his thesis.***

Greeks who lived prosperously under Ottoman rule for almost five centuries started a rebellion at March 1821 under the sway of liberal and libertarian ideas emerged in Europe at 18th century and early 19th century. In the first years of Greek rebellion Greek rebels couldn?t get the desired support from European states due to the political balance in the continent at the time. However, after a well-known Greek sympathizer George Canning get the office at the State Department, UK changed its policy about the rebellion and started to support Greeks. Greece, which could be founded, would be a strategic position in the Mediterranean for the UK. Therefore no one but UK had to exert dominance over it. The first policy employed by the UK was preventing a possible Ottoman-Russian war that could lead Russian influence over Greece. Then it supported Greek rebellion in every possible means via the associations founded on its soil for the Greek cause. Since France and Russia also got involved in the rebellion with the changing policies of the UK, Greek dispute acquired an international level rather than being only an Ottoman internal affair. The Allies (UK, Russia, and France) lead by UK first exerted political pressure on Ottoman Empire to accept autonomous Greece. Since Ottoman State didn?t surrender to these pressures, allies got actually involved in Greek rebellion with the military interventions. After these interventions a treaty signed in London (03.02.1830) decided an independent Greece to be founded. Ottoman Empire had nothing to do except bowing down the terms of the treaty.

 

*Assist Prof., Süleyman Demirel University, Departman of History.

**Hasan Demirhan, “United Kingdoms Balkan Policy and Greece”, Doktoral Thesis, İstanbul University, SBE, 2013.

***The speech will be conducted in Turkish.

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